Why is there still AI traffic floating around when I connect to VATSIM, as I recall in the past, as soon as I would connect, the AI traffic would automatically disappear, the only changes I have made to my system is I have installed some World of AI packages and did a fresh install of fscopilot on my fsx machine, I have no problems getting online, must I turn off all AI in fsx, I never had to before, and will this cause a problem for controllers, will they see the AI aswell???

I'm not sure but as far as I know, AI traffics are not dissappear when you start FSINN in FSX. You have to switch off by manuelly to AI traffics. This is a bug of FSX, I think some codes are not suitable. As I said that, I'm not sure. You may look in Fsinn forums.

It usually means you didn't connect to the multiplayer session in FS. Try starting it manually after connecting.RegardsRichie