PM2004 - Loss of State Data on Candidate Edit

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I was playing PM 2004 like all day, was building a new candidate when i noticed that there was no state data to choose from, the puul-down was blank so i saved anyways and just edited the data through the program files. When i restarted the game the state data is not avaialble for any candidates and when i choose to start a campaign the program crashes. I have v1.02. And this is the first problems I'm having with this game since installing v1.02. Help please! 

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Here's what my debug ERR file says:

ebug Message: ******* Starting Game Shell *******
Debug Message: Could not open reg key.
Debug Message: Could not find a Drengin.net Serial No.
Debug Message: Could not open reg key.
Debug Message: Could not find political machine serial in registry subdirectory PM1.
Debug Message: Could not open reg key.
Debug Message: Can't find political machine serial in registry subdirectory PM.
Debug Message: Can't find any serial numbers.
Debug Message: Anti-aliasing 4x selected.
Debug Message: Full screen mode selected.
Debug Message: Going Fullscreen
Debug Message: Preparing to change display settings.
Debug Message: Anti-aliasing enabled. Overriding recommended multisample settings.
Debug Message: Using multilsample setting: D3DMULTISAMPLE_4_SAMPLES
Debug Message: HAL (hw vp): NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Debug Message: D3DPRESENT_INTERVAL_DEFAULT
Debug Message: Refresh rate: 75
Debug Message: *********Checking D3DDevice Caps***********************
Debug Message: A full-color cursor is supported in hardware at high resolution modes.
Debug Message: Now Fullscreen
Debug Message: Shell initialization complete
Debug Message: ***** Initializing Game *****
Debug Message: Timer Frequency is 0 369e99
Debug Message: Added fonts: font2 font1 Arial13B Arial16B2 Arial10
Debug Message: Added fonts: Arial12 Arial12B Arial14 Arial14B Arial16
Debug Message: Added fonts: Arial16B Arial18 Arial18B
Debug Message: Initializing sound card.
**** Script Error **** : Data\GeraldineFerraro.Candidate (L:1 C:9) - parse error
**** Script Error **** : Data\HubertHumphrey.Candidate (L:40 C:13) - parse error
**** Script Error **** : Data\WalterMondale.Candidate (L:34 C:1) - parse error, expecting `STRING' or `CFF_CANDIDATEFROMFILEDEFEND'
**** Script Error **** : Data\CoreMaps.PolMap (L:2 C:6) - parse error
Debug Message: Issues Loaded
Debug Message: Issues Tweaked
Debug Message: Loading 15 questions from Data\60SecQuestions.questions.
Debug Message: Loading 14 questions from Data\HardHitterQuestions.questions.
Debug Message: Loading 15 questions from Data\JoeUserQuestions.questions.
Debug Message: Loading 9 questions from Data\KingQuestions.questions.
Debug Message: Loading 22 questions from Data\NightTimeQuestions.questions.
Debug Message: Loading 19 questions from Data\OMaleyQuestions.questions.
Debug Message: Loading 15 questions from Data\SawyerQuestions.questions.
Debug Message: Question Files Loaded
Debug Message: Special Interest Loaded
Debug Message: Create setup screens.
Debug Message: Set mouse.
Debug Message: Unhide opening menu.
Debug Message: Set update timer.
Debug Message: Second chance back buffer failure attempt!
Debug Message: Error flipping back buffer to primary buffer.
Debug Message: Second chance back buffer failure attempt!
Debug Message: Error flipping back buffer to primary buffer.
Debug Message: Posting WM_CLOSE message.
Debug Message: WM_CLOSE message received.
Debug Message: GameUninitialize start
Debug Message: Killing World
Debug Message: Killing World: Completed