A friend of mine spent the last several months working out of country and did not have the opportunity to keep rF2 up to date. Obviously, he did the "Mod" update first which was easy. Getting into an online game with all of the tracks and vmods was another thing. After almost 4 days (about 20 hours of searching) of attempting to get the game pieces together I came up with an idea that worked for him. I packaged up my packages folder in a couple of rar files and dropped them one at a time in my Skype dialogue box and about 30 minutes later we were on track, able to join and race together online.
There are three (3) reasons that I am sharing this information.
1. It is very difficult to chase down the vmods, tracks, and cars to get the game to run properly.
2. The rar/Skype answer turned out to be a fast and easy way to get the game up and running.
3. At present there is no clear way to tell from the mod ID what the maker of a track, car, or vmod named the source file.
No rant... just some information for folks who just want to race online without having to spend weeks looking for answers.