Well, I didn't restart and finished the scenario without any apparent problems. Final stats were
Culture: 15
Prosperity: 27
Kingdom rating: 63
Monument rating: 22
Score: 4301 (Normal)
Final funds were 1,366 with a pop of 2,279. Finished in 75 months, which is 21 ahead of the time limit. Don't know how this compares but it forced me to be a lot more agressive than I normally am. Went into debt 3 or 4 times but only for a month or two.
I wound up building a connecting road into the deep recesses of the valley where the tomb is and built 3 work camps to service the construction.
The only glitch I can't account for occurred with a SY next to the tomb. I had 1300 lamps and 400 were delivered to the tomb. A month later I was down to 500 lamps but the tomb showed only 300 lamps. No way I used 400+ lamps in 30 days.
Could have finished 6 months sooner but TWO ships with the chariot I needed sat just off the FREE dock waiting for the dock to become free.
Thanks again.
EDIT -
I do know where the lamps went to. I went on to the next scenario, Seti in the Valley. I can see both previous tombs and for each the "construction foreman" says there are 400 lamps.
[This message has been edited by Balthazar (edited 02-22-2004 @ 01:41 PM).]