Retrying mixW with mixed feelings

It has been years ago that Bernard PB7Z and I started with contesting. I immidiatly sticked to HRD and DM780 and Bernard was more into mixW. Now Bernard is one of the most active contesters in the Netherlands. And even with a vertical on groundlevel he still obtains nice scores and DX. I had a lot of troubles lately with RTTY on N1MM+ and told Bernard I would like to take a look at mixW again to see if I could get used to it. So, I got mixW 2.16 from him as he use it himself with good results all these years. At first I think mixW has a lot of features but it is not always clear how to find it (how to make a cabrillio file for example). Setup is a struggle, if you can get it to work fast you're lucky. After asking Bernard (in the middle of the Makrothen RTTY contest, sorry Bernard!) a few times I got the program working with at least CAT control. But now I wanted to take part in the contest....no way I could get a contest setup from the program. I can only make a setup by hand. And although I tried to get the most updated contest.dll into the plugin directory mixW couldn't find anything at all. Searching on the internet they suggest I should try the hidden directory "appdata" and find mixW in there to add the dll into the plugin dir. But no way I could find a mixW dir there. Oh my! Have been searching and trying for a solution but can't find it. Very bad for a program that you have to pay for, and yes I know I should have trying the newest version. And yes, I probabely try it later. But as Bernard is working with this version for years already why isn't it working for me? I don't know. The result after setting up everything by hand was 1 QSO on 80m in the Makrothen contest. And yes, I found features in mixW I like. It is the automatic grabbing of the serialnumber and the display of the call under their signal. What I still miss is the audio history I like in DM780 and FLdigi. I probabely will try mixW again as I know now how to set it up. But for serious contesting I'll better stick to N1MM+. For normal use I still think DM780 is the best....