Now if you fix the mouse cursor, you may face the second problem, which is the game crashing or quitting when loading a map, now if this happens without an error then you have the same issue that i had. Now you'll be wondering how i managed to select my account and navigate in the menu to select a map, i did that by simply moving the 'menu' folder located in 'bf2' in the mods directory of your game to 'SOW2'. If anyone is having a similar problem, and wants to identify it, then you'll have to see if your first problem with the mod was that the mouse cursor isn't appearing, if it wasn't, then you either have my exact problem or your 'menu' folder in the mod directory is deleted. The only thing causing the game to crash\quit was that patch 1.5 wasn't installed.