Error Loading Mount Database, and Other Oddities

[Red_Russian13]

Edit: I used the (not terribly effective) search function. I apologize if this is a rerun.

I gave up trying to fix this seven months ago. So I went to Roma Surrectum (RS) for a while. Time has a way of making one forget, so today I decided that I wanted to play EB, my favorite mod, once again (it worked wonderfully on my old computer...).

I'm using a Windows Vista Home Premium edition 64-bit job. I have AMD Phenom 9550 Quad-Core processor at 2.20 GHz. I have 4GB of RAM. I have 2 ATI Radeon HD 4850s.

I have NOT installed RTW in any of the Program Files folder, and have instead made a new folder on the C: drive named "Games." This is because, despite turning off the infernal UAC, RTW is not liked in either of the aforementioned locations on Vista machines. Vista is not the issue; I played RS for seven months with no problems.

This is what I've done:

Uninstalled every trace of RTW/EB/RS/BI, etc, etc.

I then installed RTW, then BI, then EB 1.1, then EB 1.2, then the BI installer, as directed by that mini-mod's creator. I get the following error once the splash screen for EB comes up:

"Error loading mount database."

I have to Right-Click-Tab out. I click "Okay."

Then I get this message:

"Script error in eb/data/descr_mount.txt, at line 446, Column 1.
Could not find battle model for 'elephant oliphant."

I uninstalled everything. I installed up to EB 1.1. It loads up and I get to the main menu. At this point, EB will run off the RTW disk just fine it seems, as the BI installer hasn't been applied.

Then I install EB 1.2. Same error. So I figure that maybe I've got a bum download. I download the installer for 1.2 from another source. No joy. I uninstall completely and do it over again, this time with an installer for 1.2 from yet another source. I have tried this without the BI installer, and I get the same error.

I am at wits end. I cannot figure this out. Your help would be greatly appreciated. I just want to play EB, but this is taking up a great deal of my "game playing time."

Thanks in advance.

Edit 2: I "validated" my install, and the validation text file has nothing in it. So I don't know if that validated or not.