driller_killer

hi everyone, unfortunately my first post is a desperate help request... When I try to launch SonicStage the program would.. well, not crash with a proper error message, simply QUIT without a reason after the "Initializing UI components..." procedure appears on the splash screen. I have tried with the bundled 3.4 SS, with the 4.2 and with the 4.3, but the problem is the same. I have read several troubleshooting articles/faqs and apparently there is no reason why SS should not work. Specifically: I have SP2 installed I do not have "that" Microsoft security update installed (unless it's built-in in SP2 in fact) and I do not have an nVidia video card. I thought it might have been because of the language of the OS (Italian) but in my notebook it works flawlessly. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks alot!