I surely did see an article on this before, not sure where exactly (as I cannot find it again)..
..but I wanted to make The Protectors run under Steam instead the 1.03x version.
And of course, Steam did auto-update the game back to the 1.03x.
What I also failed, was to detect and deactivate the one Steam option that would leave the game folder ignored.
Or Steam gone so toxic, that there is no such option anymore?