MikeOne nailed it. Pyler, I know you said it works on a clean install for you, but for those "special" people where v1.9 crashes upon running, it crashes if it is set to stable_version. I was looking at the preferences XML file. If I change the the version_type from 0 (stable) to 1 (beta), it works again - but only for checking the beta version. If I change it to 0, it crashes again. Also, even if I leave it looking for beta updates, if I select to never show changelog, it crashes no matter which version I am set to look for.