Solved, and main post updated. Thanks Patmals and Everyone else!

I can't get into any preferences on the program, flash is working fine on everything else too. I even ran a debugger on it. Nothin', it's just complaining about the DEP still. Maybe a bad disk? I've tried reinstalling and updating everything.

New Bigger Image is loaded.

Still the same, haha, Is there a way to bypass the welcome screen that anyone knows about, without going into the settings after the program has started? Maybe a command line or something?

And I cannot select anything, it fades out and freezes right after everything loads. And it's in both modes.

The problem is, I can't get into the program. And I don't see another external settings exe of any kind anywhere in it's directories.

Here is a snap shot of where it gets. It's right after I select either "Beginner Mode / Standard Mode"

I do the same every so often, it's a relatively newer install. I would think that would be it, but everything else runs great on my system. And I'm not sure what you mean by turning off the startup file. Earlier I did Delete the file that was in the "Startup" folder, and that just made it ...

OLD: "I've looked everywhere for a possible fix. So now I'm here to see if maybe someone has an answer. I just got AS Debut 7 to try it out. And unfortunately, when I start the program, it gets to the point of loading the preset scene that it starts with, the entire program either fades half-wh...