AniDB

If I go to check my mylist as soon as I start AOM I can go and play around in it, open up anime trees, set as watched, change states, etc. But after the 'Processing Dump Download' (I believe that's what it's called) is finished my Mylist becomes unusable. Whatever was overlayed on the screen before switching to the Mylist tab becomes the background for the mylist. None of the animes I have are listed, and it doesn't seem like anything can be done from that screen from then on. I still get the tabs at the top of the screen (Name, Dub, Sub, EPs, etc.) and the scroll bars. I can move the scroll bars around, but if I play around with it too much AOM begins taking up 99% of my system resources and I have to go to taskmanager to kill the process.

Other than that, it seems to affect none of AOM's other functionality. This didn't happen at the beginning of my using this version of the client, so I imagine it's some change in my system that's causing this, but I can't figure it out. The only thing I can think of is since installing this version I had changed the default language for non-Unicode programs to Japanese, but changing it back to English and restarting seems to have no effect. This makes me wonder if indeed this is a bug in the client...

I had the same problem. check your log for things like this:

[02.06.2004 02:11:19] - Failed to update rmt:file - 52799! The error message was: Access violation at address 0063D190 in module 'AOM.exe'. Read of address 00000014
[02.06.2004 02:11:19] - Executing new AniDB command.
[02.06.2004 02:11:21] - Converting and saving new mylist data.
[02.06.2004 02:11:21] - Loading mylist data...
[02.06.2004 02:11:21] - Failed to update mylist - 52799! The error message was: Access violation at address 0063D620 in module 'AOM.exe'. Read of address 00000014
[02.06.2004 02:11:21] - Executing new AniDB command.
[02.06.2004 02:11:21] - Removing obsolete entries.
[02.06.2004 02:11:21] - Failed to update rmt:mylist - 39113! The error message was: Access violation at address 0063D190 in module 'AOM.exe'. Read of address 00000014
[02.06.2004 02:11:24] - Connection to AniDB successfully terminated. All queued tasks completed.

if yes delete all files in the kowai dir except for the local*.* ones.

Those were indeed the errors I got (I don't know why I didn't remember to include them). I did what you said and it worked like a charm, thanks a lot.