TES Construction Set hangs on start

[BoloDigby]

I cannot use CS any longer. Regardless of version of TES CS, regardless of .dll, directX and other factors, CS hangs on start. At the bottom of the CS interface I can see that it hits, "Initializing FaceGen..." but proceeds no further. XP event viewer reports "TESConstructionSet.exe, version (both version numbers hang), hang module hungapp. etc. etc."

 

Does anyone know of a dependent .ini file that TESCS references that has something to do with FaceGen, and if so, what I can change in said ini file so that it can fully launch? I'm not trying to generate any visual content, merely want to make a custom spell.