Crash on Spring Launch: Could not load startpicture

[Altrieth]

Whenever a spring game launches, it immediately crashes, and gives me an error in a pop up dialog:

Could not load startpicture from file bitmaps/loadpictures/*

Where * seems to vary depending on what start image spring is attempting to load. It aways is a filename, something like blizzard.jpg in the most recent crash.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling spring, downloading a new installer and trying again, and using the multithreaded executable instead of the regular one, but it keeps crashing.

Some stats:
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Business Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ 2.6 GHz
Ram: 4094MB RAM
GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Here's the infolog for the most recent crash:

LogOutput initialized.
Spring 0.82.7.1 (0.82.7.1)
Build date/time: Jan 8 2011 00:17:26
Available log subsystems: CollisionVolume, unit, ArchiveScanner, VFS-detail, VFS, Sound
Enabled log subsystems: Sound
Enable or disable log subsystems using the LogSubsystems configuration key
or the SPRING_LOG_SUBSYSTEMS environment variable (both comma separated).
Use "none" to disable the default log subsystems.
default config file: C:\Users\Dave\AppData\Local\springsettings.cfg
using default configuration source "C:\Users\Dave\AppData\Local\springsettings.cfg"
[CMyMath::Init] CPU SSE mask: 120, flags:
SSE 1.0: 1, SSE 2.0: 1
SSE 3.0: 1, SSSE 3.0: 0
SSE 4.1: 0, SSE 4.2: 0
SSE 4.0A: 0, SSE 5.0A: 0
using streflop SSE FP-math mode, CPU supports SSE instructions
OS: Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows 7 Business Edition, 64-bit (build 7600)
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+; 4094MB RAM, 8187MB pagefile
OS: emulated 32bit mode
Using read-write data directory: Q:\Spring\
Using read-only data directory: C:\Users\Dave\Documents\My Games\Spring\
Scanning: C:\Users\Dave\Documents\My Games\Spring\maps
Scanning: C:\Users\Dave\Documents\My Games\Spring\mods
Scanning: C:\Users\Dave\Documents\My Games\Spring\packages
Scanning: Q:\Spring\maps
Scanning: Q:\Spring\base
Scanning: Q:\Spring\games
Scanning: Q:\Spring\mods
Supported Video modes: 1440x900, 1360x1024, 1360x768, 1280x1024, 1280x960, 1280x800, 1280x768, 1280x720, 1152x864, 1024x768, 848x480, 800x600, 720x576, 720x480, 640x480
Video mode set to 1440x900/32bit
[f=0000000] SDL: 1.2.10
[f=0000000] GL: 3.3.10243 Compatibility Profile Context
[f=0000000] GL: ATI Technologies Inc.
[f=0000000] GL: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
[f=0000000] GLSL: 3.30
[f=0000000] GLEW: 1.5.4
[f=0000000] ATI hacks enabled
[f=0000000] Joysticks found: 0
[f=0000000] Joystick 0 not found
[f=0000000] Connecting to local server
[f=0000000] Starting GameServer: 53 ms
[f=0000000] Starting demo recording
[f=0000000] Using map 1 Pass Greenland Remake Final
[f=0000000] Recording demo demos/20110605_004631_1 Pass Greenland Remake Final_0.82.7.sdf
[f=0000000] [Sound] OpenAL info:
[f=0000000] [Sound] Vendor: OpenAL Community
[f=0000000] [Sound] Version: 1.1 ALSOFT 1.11.753
[f=0000000] [Sound] Renderer: OpenAL Soft
[f=0000000] [Sound] AL Extensions: AL_EXTX_buffer_sub_data AL_EXT_EXPONENT_DISTANCE AL_EXT_FLOAT32 AL_EXT_IMA4 AL_EXT_LINEAR_DISTANCE AL_EXT_MCFORMATS AL_EXT_OFFSET AL_EXTX_sample_buffer_object AL_EXT_source_distance_model AL_LOKI_quadriphonic
[f=0000000] [Sound] ALC Extensions: ALC_ENUMERATE_ALL_EXT ALC_ENUMERATION_EXT ALC_EXT_CAPTURE ALC_EXT_disconnect ALC_EXT_EFX ALC_EXTX_thread_local_context
[f=0000000] [Sound] ALC_EXT_EFX found (required for air absorption): yes
[f=0000000] [Sound] Device: DirectSound Software
[f=0000000] [Sound] Available Devices:
[f=0000000] [Sound] DirectSound Software
[f=0000000] [Sound] air absorption enabled: 0.1
[f=0000000] Using mod Balanced Annihilation V7.31
[f=0000000] Using mod archive 4c8015c2c7c31ec793dd041fe5cf163e.sdp
[f=0000000] Loading client data: 99 ms
[f=0000000] User number 0 (team 0, allyteam 0)
[f=0000000] Caught content exception: Could not load startpicture from file bitmaps/loadpictures/blizzard.jpg
[f=0000000] Content error Could not load startpicture from file bitmaps/loadpictures/blizzard.jpg

I would appreciate any help you all can give me, as I'd really like to get back to playing spring again.

[hoijui]

i see you are using a rapid game. which one?
try others/different versions.
for the future, attach infolog as file to your posts, not in-post.

[Altrieth]

I was using the "Test Spring" program, but just to replicate the issue. The same problem occurs with the multithreaded test, as well as with launching a game from within a lobby. I've tried launching the game from within TASClient and SpringLobby, with the same results.

[Altrieth]

I tried re-downloading and re-installing again, and this time the problem went away, at least when launching from inside SpringLobby. Sorry for wasting anyone's time.