I see that a number of you have looked at this and there are no ideas as of yet.
I am beginning to believe it is more of a machine problem than a program problem. I have down loaded a new copy from Mechanique and loaded it with the same symptoms. If I boot in safe mode, it still will not run, and if I open the task manager, PBPX.exe locks up 50% of my core 2 Duo processor until i kill it even after closing an unresponsive program. I have once seen an error that stated ; WSAStartup not yet determined, but I have not been able to go any further.
Still fishing for suggestions, short of rebuilding my system.
Thanks.
Bo