cool,
I've also picked up that the default files are not being loaded, with the exception of default tournament and layout, events, schedule and chips are not loading using the defaults specified in preferences>config files
My agent is using a different laptop now and he is experiencing the rhythmic CPU 100% usage that you described at release. It is actually affecting quite badly the tournament clock, which can often go 6-10 seconds without the countdown changing, I am unable to explain it either, as up until this point I have never saw any problem with TD using so much resource on tens of laptops and computers owned by different people, my own laptop only uses around 18% cpu.
Stu