I can buy that as an explanation-- when I went to Add/Remove, only Entrenchment and Sins were there, not Diplomacy. Both errored when I tried to remove, asking if I just wanted to remove them from my programs list anyway.

Now the problem is that Impulse won't load- crashes each time, application restarts, repeat. Impulse is not listed on my Add/Remove programs, and when I download the installer from impulsenow it is telling me I need to upgrade to IE 7 for things to work right--- despite the fact that I already have IE 7.

Any ideas?

ETA- Thanks for the reply

Actually, Blair's suggestion worked. It took a little bit of extra effort, but following along the idea he suggested of reinstalling, and since Impulse was saying I should upgrade to IE 7 (which was already installed) I did the following:

1) Re-downloaded the IE7 installer and re-ran it.

2) Re-ran the Impulse installer. Now it did not complain that I did not have IE 7. [ETA- and instead of giving that complaint, gave me the option to uninstall or repair the install of Impulse. I chose the repair option]

3) Deleted everything in the Starkdock Games folder

4) Reinstalled Sins

5) Reinstalled Entrenchment

6) Reinstalled Diplomacy

Voila. Happy happy.

Thanks for the comments.

Very good suggestion there, IE installs are pretty bulletproof short of something that isn't supposed to be present.