Index: PluginManager.cs
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--- PluginManager.cs	(revision 10617)
+++ PluginManager.cs	(working copy)
@@ -172,8 +172,8 @@
             _plugins = ProcessAssemblies(assemblies);
 
             // If no plugins could be loaded, throw a fatal exception
-            if (_plugins.Count == 0)
-                throw new PluginException(SR.ExceptionUnableToLoadPlugins);
+            //if (_plugins.Count == 0)
+            //    throw new PluginException(SR.ExceptionUnableToLoadPlugins);
 
             // scan plugins for extensions
             List<ExtensionInfo> extList = new List<ExtensionInfo>();
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@
 			catch (Exception e)
 			{
 				Platform.Log(LogLevel.Error,e);
-				throw; // TH (Oct 5, 2007) replaced "throw e" with "throw".  "throw e" produces a new exception stack. We want to know where the original exception occurs instead
+				//throw; // TH (Oct 5, 2007) replaced "throw e" with "throw".  "throw e" produces a new exception stack. We want to know where the original exception occurs instead
 			}
 			finally
 			{
@@ -317,8 +317,8 @@
 				if (domain != null)
 					AppDomain.Unload(domain);
 
-                if (pluginFiles == null || pluginFiles.Length == 0)
-					throw new PluginException(SR.ExceptionNoPluginsFound);
+                //if (pluginFiles == null || pluginFiles.Length == 0)
+                //    throw new PluginException(SR.ExceptionNoPluginsFound);
 			}
             return pluginFiles;
 		}