Updater Crash at Verify Image (AGAIN!)

Yet once again, I can't verifying image thru the COH updater. I did nothing unusual this time around, and now it's ****ing up YET again after a major patch. I was patient before, but now this is driving me absolutely insane with frustration. Every time I load up the COHupdater now it tries to Verify Image, but crashes/closes seconds later. I had left it running overnight last night to install the i19 patch as I slept, and when I got back to it the next evening it had a prompt of "Error opening [directory]/tempfile... may be out of disk space or... insufficient permissions," but neither of those conditions were true, and that's EXACTLY what happened when i18 came out and I had to completely uninstall and reinstall. My live folder and my test folder.

I'm running Windows XP Home SP3, 2.8 gigs of RAM, over 50GB of free space on the HDD partition, and nothing else running.

Last time the only "fix" was to uninstall and reinstall the entire game (as in, a completely fresh install). This is unacceptable, and not a "fix" at all when it happens every patch.

It's the same error I had before, and I'm getting very sick of spending days to reinstall everything within the FEW hours I get to myself every night. Stuff like this is makes me want to finally quit the game entirely. And it doesn't help that I hardly got any help at all last time this happened. "Do over," is not a repair.

Here's the log:

######## EXCEPTION: 0xC0000005 at address: 0x0041A5E6: ACCESS VIOLATION write attempt to address 0x23FA9B5C
1: 12/01/10 23:17:39

1: 0
1: Mod: CohUpdater, base: 00400000h
1: Offset: 0x0041a5e6
1: Sym: type: -nosymbols-, file: E:\Programs\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe


######## EXCEPTION: 0xC0000005 at address: 0x0041A5E6: ACCESS VIOLATION write attempt to address 0x23FA9B5C
1: 12/01/10 23:19:02

1: 0
1: Mod: CohUpdater, base: 00400000h
1: Offset: 0x0041a5e6
1: Sym: type: -nosymbols-, file: E:\Programs\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe


######## EXCEPTION: 0xC0000005 at address: 0x0041A5E6: ACCESS VIOLATION write attempt to address 0x23FA9B5C
1: 12/01/10 23:22:37

1: 0
1: Mod: CohUpdater, base: 00400000h
1: Offset: 0x0041a5e6
1: Sym: type: -nosymbols-, file: E:\Programs\City of Heroes\CohUpdater.exe



Deleting the checksum file and running updater again does not stop it from crashing when it goes to verify image after completing the checksum and fixing files.

Update #2, After going through all 3 folders I have for COH, live & test & beta, the beta version worked while live and test continued to crash at Verification, even though all 3 were running on the same version. I didn't do anything else but decided to try loading the COHupdater (for live) one last time before quitting on it all together for the night... and suddenly it stopped cocking up and now works. Without explaination. I closed that and loaded up the test and beta folder versions again (individually) and they also were working fine. I don't know wtf happened that they're loading up fine now, but needless to say this is a very frustrating situation if it keeps happening, not knowing when I'll be able to run the game or not. The only reason I'm not "overtly infuriated" is that with my schedule I'm not missing much in game anyway, just playtime that I pay for.

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The Beta is full of bugs? How can that be?!