I recently (about 2 months ago) lost a hard disk drive so lost both of my tw games as well. I had only reinstalled MTW not STW. Last night I reinstalled STW, and the throne room advisor is now working perfectly. No problems with the throne room emissaries nor the assassination movies either. This has to be codec specific issue. The debugger thing is a seperate problem, which I've never seen.

I have XP SP2, with an ATI Radeon 9000 using the latest drivers, well I don't think they were the latest but apparently my card is no longer supported by the newest driver releases. My sound card is an SB Audigy 2 Value, I think that's running on a fairly recent driver also. As for codecs, I haven't changed anything since instaling XP. I'm not running the game in Win98 compatibility mode either, as that slows it right down. Another thing is that I don't have Nero Intalled, as I haven't needed to burn CD's for quite a while. I did have it installed on the previous XP installation but I still didn't see that debugger error.