Nope, this is the right plce for errata.
However, the reason why the header is stripped in gears is because the PSX and PC verisons use differnt headers and the offsets are different, but the data is exactly the same. It's to allow a "generic" fomat of the save data.
Unless I'm mistaken and the PSX and PC file formats havve the same header....
As I'm off to work on the field system, and have considered the menu section "beta" I would like input on how to fix it. Better yet, I'm going to make a new post, post any problems with Gears there....