Blank message body in WLM

A couple of days ago I reformatted a dell dimension 4600 with xp. did all the updates sp3 and beyond. Went to load Windows Live Mail 2008 (vers 12) and now all the message headers have reloaded from what was stored on various accounts (rr mail, hotmail, etc.) but the message body is blank. If you view the source info, the message is there, but it won't display in the message (body) pane.

When you put your mouse over the viewing pane I get an hourglass.

I have another machine at home that is running the same version and nothing is wrong there. everything works perfect.

I have a feeling a hotfix somewhere is causing the problem that I may not have yet downloaded on my rig at home. I don't have a reason to believe it is a virus because it is a fresh install of xp.

 

That many views and no replies?

Guess I'll look elsewhere.

 

Interesting, when I click on that download link you gave me I get a dialogue box that says C:\Documents and Settings...\Desktop\wlsetup-web.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

keep in mind this is on a fresh install of xp sp3 with all patches.

also...the languages are all set to english

 

Also, since this is a clean install I don't have any av installed yet. was waiting to make this worked before I got into installing all of the other stuff.

IMO it is definitely something within the program becasue the message is in the message source when you look it up in Properties. For some reason it won't display in the window.