97 and 98 is working fine if i compile those , but default 99 doesnt even give me gains :< wth?

what can be causing this?

i recently got the 99distro from the site here and set it up and rewrite a mining script for it. then when i began testing i found that i wasnt getting skill gains, i did on the fly testing using gm char with setting skills to max. at first i thought it was something in my code and after alot of ...