Blender Issues

[LoloPinky]

Hey everyone.

I have so many ideas for modding Skyrim that I decided I would finally learnt how to mesh properly. But I've encountered a problem already. I've installed Blender but it won't seem to load up properly. It stays on the loading screen and nothing loads properly. When I hover my mouse over things they show up, but the splash screen doesn't go away and the workspace won't load at all. I'm using v2.49b, I've tried the newest version of Blender which seems to work fine, but all of the modding tutorials use 2.49b. Does anyone know what's going on and how I can fix it? I've got python 2.6.6 installed as well.

 

Picture under here of when I hover over things;

 

http://i.imgur.com/WFX4Z.jpg