Please help - either read below or click link.
Really odd error. ;o;


Posted here - http://tale-of-tales.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7212

To recap -

Last night, I was playing TEF, and I decided to go do something else for a while, so I x'd out
using the action strip's x, and then came back a bit later.
To find that it won't open properly.

When I double-click on my desktop icon, I get a popup window that appears and dissipates
SUPER fast, and then of course, the tab on the bottom opens. I run in windowed mode, so I wait
for a few, and since I generally have no problems with TEF loading { My computer is a beast
and can handle uh... I think 27 TEF's is its limit. } and so I wait longer. I have Vista, so I hove
rover the tab in the bottom - and see it loading!
But no window ever pops up.
The tab / window tab in the quick launch bar for Vista is there, and like I go into depth below, I
can play in it - connecting and seeing other deer.
But no window pops up, and I play in windowed mode.

I can interact and play in the bottom hover-window, which is quite odd, actually. I can tell you
it's raining in the forest right now, just from that.

I did nothing in-between that would have caused this, so I'm really at a loss.

I tried many things to remedy the problem.

Downloaded AVG's free trial with maximum security, and scanned for viruses. I'm scanning
again as I type to see if it's a virus.
Then I uninstalled and reinstalled, that didn't work.
Rebooted my computer as well, still not working.
This morning I tried running as administrator, and that gives me a full-screen version, and it
flashes constantly the quick launch buttons beneath it and certain parts of the browser or
whatever I have behind it. Very annoying, really, so I -could- play as that, but I don't think I'd
want to.
I also tried running the settings window - and discovered as I put up prior that it is the exact
same size as the one that flashes for a milisecond when I start.
That functions perfectly fine, so I think it's the Q3DStart.q3d. I had my friend send me her's via
MSN, and that didn't work for me, either.
It's the root of the problem, but it's my computer doing something generally stupid as it
normally does, though I can't identify the issue.

I run with a Dell Studio Hybrid 140G, with an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, T5800 at 2.00
gigahertz, with 4 gigs of RAM, 745 gigs of memory, and an awesome video card. { Don't know
specifications. }

I can get screenshots of any part of the error you'd like.

Thanks for reading and I hope to get this problem solved. :'D