I have one of those sticks too, but I always used it with the force turned off in AH because it would quit at the top of the loop, leaving the stick floppy, so that was not an issue for me.
However, when the new upgrade came out, NONE of my FFPro 2 stick settings survived, and I had to program the stick from scratch and through trial and error, despite the existence of a help file and a post by hammer which really did clue me in to the basics. So don't give up; it can be done.
I learned a lot that way, so maybe I can help with the procedure. I know that if I had to do it all over again, it would take ten minutes now, not 4 hours.
Also, when you get it back to normal, go to the Settings folder in Aces High, and choose to display the files by type. You will find three .jsm files in there, and they seem to be your saved stick settings. They will open with Notepad, btw, so you might want to associate them with Notepad. I copied those files as backups in case another version or patch messes with my j/s settings again.
Good luck.
