NOT a Seasons crashing problem

[Hecubus]

But it is a crashing problem of sorts.

Since January 21 (I don't know why I remember the date, but I do), I have reloaded Pets seven times. I can play successfully the day before and close down properly, and then the next day, the program will simply NOT load. I move my CC, uninstall, then reinstall.

As I said, this has happened seven times. Now each time before this last, I've blamed CC that I downloaded, isolating, cleansing, and purging as needed (I sound bulemic). This time, there was NO computer activity other than a routine  email check between shutting down last night and attempting to open up this afternoon.

I'm on WinXP with Visiontek Radeon 9600SE graphics card, 1.0 gHz speed, OODLES of HD space and over a gig of memory.

What might be causing this conflict? It's almost as though something edits the startup routine that makes it stop before it starts...

Thanks in advance.

[Cons]

Probably won't do diddly for this, but did you delete the Groups.cache file? That worked for me with OFB and it's weird crashing glitch. Doesn't work with Seasons, but hey any port in a storm.

Could be a safedisc glitch  when it goes to load after you shut down it's not finding what it needs and it aborts the load.. Think there is a file to DL that deals with safedisc issues. Microsoft has a file to DL to fix that issue.