Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Not sure if any of the mappers know about this already but go here http://www.planetbattlefield.com/bf1942/tweakin/files/#graphic and downlaod the map graphics at the bottom. There are litteraly hundreds of photo-realistic textures for you to use in your maps including new road textures