I am installing crossfire again and following instructions, but have run in to a similar problem I had before.
I got the freelancer folder restarted and I put that somewhere in my games folder.
I then installed the FLMM (v1.3)
I then installed crossfire 1.9 which went into the mods folder, within the FLMM folder.
After opening FLMM it asks for the freelancer's directory. I click on the location of the freelancer folder which contains Freelancer.EXE, but it keeps saying unable to find freelancer directory.??