puzzling CTD

[Khazar_Dahvos]

O.K so let me start at the beginning. First of all I have been playing EB for about 2 years now and I have never had a major problem installing it. So naturally when EB 1.0 came out I installed it that same day and have been playing it without any mods except for spoils of victory mod and some adds to the desc mercanary's script. Then I decided to take a break from it for a couple of weeks and finally I tried firing it up and the beginning screen took like 15 minutes which was very odd(it has never done that before) to get past it and then you have the activision logo comes up then the soldiers marching video and the loading screen comes up and then It CTD at the beginning of that screen. So I tried firing it up a couple more times and It kept doing the same thing. Then I reinstalled RTW and EB and when I fire it up it is doing the same thing(I have unistalled and installed it 4 times now using different download sites just in case one is corrupt. The only program that I have installed onto my computer in the 2 week period that I did not play EB is Nero 63115(pretty sure this would have nothing to do with the CTD). I have used the EB validation tool and this is the only errors it is been showing after each time I have uninstalled installed.

Changed file: .\data\descr_arrow_trail_effects_final.txt (expected checksum 4e50ed8c1a6625c101cea0c71062c94f, got de783fafcadbd4caa710d79edb38a59a)
Changed file: .\data\descr_surface_fire.txt (expected checksum 6e82d50b514e70b8a2c6accbd39680f6, got c2ecf65971bfb7c135e62a23d0421f83)
Changed file: .\data\text\caesar_in_gaul_wip_5_regions_and_settlement_names.txt (expected checksum c08c87669b79ae4c5c1c7dda8f8683c5, got 893c29ac0fee8ca8f029bc1d086da1da)
Added file: .\license agreement.txt

are these files in rtw/eb/data or rtw/data because the changed files are found in rtw/data
So how do I remedy this problem?
when I installed rtw and its proper patches it workes fine so I can conclude that its not my game disc's.
I have checked the forum for ctd's related to this but nobody has posted on how they have fixed their problems.

here is the posted checklist
_ 1 Install RTW and EB once again, from scratch
_ 2 Install using 7-zip rather than installer
_ 3 Download a map.rwm file and place it in eb/data/world/maps/base (requires both the disaster and Oppida permanent fixes)
_ 4 Add -nm to the shortcut
_ 5 Delete some interfering files that Vista hides in its bowels
_ 6 Run the validation tool to diagnose the problem
_ 7 Install the fixes linked in my sig
_ 8 Add more swap space in Windows, and other technical measures you can take
_ 9 Using RTW Gold? Try to uninstall everything and do not install BI
_ 10 Got an ATI Radeon X700 graphics card? Apparently some setting called "Support DXT textures format" is creating problems. Try to change this setting for the driver called "Support DXT textures format".

1 check
2 not sure if I did it right but I extract it to desktop with 7 zip then placed files in the activision/rtw folder
3 check
4 check
5 not applicable
6 check (same error each time)
7 check
8 not sure how to do it
9 not applicable
10 not applicable