Update Jan 18, 2009: Version 2.5.5 contains a fix for this problem. Please download the latest version of the Tournament Director if you are experiencing this issue:
http://www.thetournamentdirector.net/download.html
A number of you are reporting that file dialogs are no longer working. That means that when you press the "Load" button to load a tournament, or the "Save As..." button to save a tournament, or any button that would open a file browser dialog, essentially nothing happens.
It seems at the moment that this may have been caused by a recent update to Internet Explorer 7. I am currently researching this issue. As always, it's easiest if I can reproduce the problem myself so I can try to work through it, but I have been unsuccessful thus far.
So this will be the main topic for this issue. If you are experiencing this problem and can provide help or information, please post to this topic. I'm going to point other open topics to this one.
As a first stab at this, here's something to try:
1) Close the TD and any open instances of Internet Explorer. For good measure, you should close all running programs.
2) On the Windows Start menu, select "Run..."
3) Type the following and press Enter:
regsvr32 /u comdlg32.ocx4) You should see a dialog like the this:
5) Press the "OK" button, then start the TD
6) You *may* see a dialog like this:
7) If so, press the "No" button
8 ) After the TD initializes, press the "Load" button and see if the file browser dialog opens
9) If so, yay!
10) If not, close the TD and repeat these steps. When you get to step 7, press the "Yes" button instead