I had this unhandled exception on Ubuntu running under WINE, so I figured it was a WINE problem. I then installed in a VM and it didn't work there either. I noticed that in both placed what was different from my usual usage was the location of the XP installation folder. For UBUNTU, it was a place-holding Z: drive that points to my root under WINE. For the XP VM, it was a G: drive mapped to a shared folder back on my host machine. In the VM, I copied the folder to the C: drive, and it worked without a problem. Just thought someone would like to know if they run into the same thing.