Bob, and others,
I am having nasty problems with current Inkscape downloads. I will be happy to know that I may be doing something stupid but I do not know what it is. The problems have been gnawing away for a couple of weeks but it was only within the last few days that I've had time to take a close look. I have done a fair bit of checking today and found:
Problem 1. I freshly downloaded 0.44-1-win32.exe and set it up etc, and it works fine. The about screen says it was built on June 23 and the Inkscape.exe file size is 5832K. I brought down the Daily Build LATEST.EXE file 0607162003 from Mirrored Win32 builds. When I set it up it says it was built on June 15, with an .exe file size of 5822K. It works OK but I read that as saying that it is an older version and certainly not a July 16 build. Similarly the LATEST.EXE file 0607300220 opens up saying it was also built on June 15, with an exe file size of 5822K. This suggests to me that these LATEST.EXE files are only updated in name. Something seems broke in da woodpile.
Problem 2. I have downloaded Bobs full size Inkscape versions 0607141303, 0607281436, and 0607300736. Each unzips and opens OK but then gives the error messages that I mentioned a day or so ago, and then borks. The exe file sizes are an orderly 6888K, 6994K and 7002K and the built dates are July 9, July 26 and July 30. This suggests to me that Bobs versions are current - wonderful, I love them-if only they would run for me.
Bobs suggestion of removal or modification of Inkscape.dat don't make no difference.
The sum of this appears to me that my most recent Inkscape is July 23 and that I'm stuck on this. What to do?
Erik