The @ is probably there because your layer seems to be a tileindex
shapefile. Checking back in history, seems it has been introduced in
version 3.1.1, which dates from Sept 2007, so not really a very recent
modification.
I'm not using tileindex shapefiles at all so I never experienced
problems
Armin-
Back on October 14, someone posted a problem with zoom2extent, but he
apparently got it working on his own before you could answer. I just got the
same exact behavior when I recently upgraded to 4.1.1... never seen it before
in 2 years of using pmapper.
The function call to zoom2exte