Ugh. That means, among other things, that the process gets killed before it gets a chance to say why. Now, the question is, is it dying on its own, is something killing it, or is it doing something bad and causing windows to kill it?

Are you running some weird flavor of XP, like XP-64? Anything interesting in the event logs? Do any other programs exhibit the same behavior? How bad do you want to figure this out vs trying on a clean install (preferably on a separate disk)?