BSPlayer crashes when trying to play anything

[canadian69]

BSplayer v1.37.826, Unhandled exception at EIP: 00000000
If you click 'Close' application will be terminated.
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Access violation at address 00000000. Read of address 00000000
EAccessViolation
Call stack: 00000000,0040367F

Win2K
ATI 9200

Divx plyer will still play files, but BSPlayer and other players all crash, I recvently upgraded to BS 2.1 and thats when the trouble started, I have backed it off to 1.37 (which worked fine before) but I still have this problem. I am also seeing crashes when trying to open Divx files with other applications such as Cucusoft video converter, I have been trying various applications, players etc, all with no luck. has anyone ran into a problem like this? Since it its not exclusive to BSPlayer I have to assume its some sort of system based problem that arrose during the upgrade.

any assistance is welcome. I have re-installed video drivers and applications to no avail.