On the quest for getting the Israh Tutorial to work again, I thought I wasn't using the Span command and this was throwing off the map, but it seems like it goes wonky in Fractal Terrains before I even get to Wilbur. At least the tutorial starts with FT.

So to summarize, in the Israh Tutorial, we are good up to the point where we run this command:
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Planet Settings >> Secondary (tab) >> Continental Shelves = 300m >> Apply
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this actually brings them up from the world starting altitude of -304.8m, to simulate an event in the past where massive glaciers formed. This is where I am at this point
Before 1st Incise Flow.PNG

So now I run the 1st Incise Flow called for by the tutorial:
Incise Flow: Select all, 1 / 0.5 / 1 / 8 (I flipped the tutorial values which were reversed. I so hoped that would fix it)

which gets me this result:
After 1st Incise Flow.PNG

It has completely eaten away my coastlines.. when we compare it to what the tutorial says we should have:
After 1st Incise Flow in Tut.PNG

I am absolutely dumbfounded how it can go so far astray.....

I am including my map in ftw format at the point just before I run the 1st Incise Flow command after setting the Continental Shelves to 300m here: http://www.worldofgotha.com/PF_TUTORIAL/israh2.html

The map is here in compressed form, from 200mb to 5mb..
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5r...ew?usp=sharing

I am really at a loss and am about to just chalk up that tutorial as a failed resource. Much as I love their results, I simply cannot get past the 1st part without a total failure recreating it or even knowing WHY I can't recreate it. If I knew WHY it was failing so completely I might learn something.

Hopefully someone can point me at something I am just missing.