Game wont play online or Sp skirmish unless i delete Game.prefs

Hi all...

After playing a custom game the other night in which due to poor net connection at time i got disconnected from Demigod has showed very odd behavior.

Next game i tried to play, another custom game..the game made it to the loading screen and froze with the debug message on screen. Tried again, same thing.

Tried Single player skirmish...same thing. Tried single player tournament, and it worked fine.

I uninstalled and reinstalled and it still would not work.

I then deleted the GPG folder in My Games and the game worked fine......

Today i copied my previous Game.prefs file back into the Demigod folder in My Games and played a online custom game...with no issues, tried again tonight and the issue reappeared, also in SP mode as well.

But, if i delete the Game.prefs file in My Games, it will work on SP and online.

Convoluted situation i know, but any ideas. I have the error log and posted below is the last part of that which seem to point to an error.

Is support@stardock the place to email such an issue with DG, or is there a GPG support feature i should seek out.

Cheers for the help!

'\000/lua/sim/conquest.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/victory.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/common/preload.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/simcamera.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/system/singleevent.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/gamecolors.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/conquestglobals.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/aibrain.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/brainplanner.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/herogoap.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/skill.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/common/validateskill.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/heroaiaction.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/heroaigoal.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/heroaisensor.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/heroaiworldstate.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategicgoap.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategicaction.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategicgoal.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategicsensor.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategic/assets/laneasset.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategicasset.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategic/assets/flagasset.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategic/assets/strongholdasset.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategic/assets/enemyasset.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategic/assets/herobrainasset.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategic/assets/friendlyasset.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategic/assets/teambrainasset.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategic/assets/structuredefensefortasset.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategic/assets/ctfflagasset.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/ai/strategicworldstate.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/structureunit.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/characterunit.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/character.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/factions.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/herounit.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/sim/inventory.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/common/heroutil.lua\000'
info: Sim::Create() crashed: attempt to get as string a nil value
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