Vista - Windows Photo Gallery Showing Black Screen

Hey everyone...

I've had a long and difficult battle with vista and this computer.

My latest issue after taking the computer back to the custom builder and having him reinstall windows completely:

It seems I have had my other issues fixed (damn last time I said this, I jinxed it and my computer "crash dumped" again). I used to have it crash all the time, which I thought I fixed by reinstalling and uninstalling a bunch of programs. Then the internet ran slow and I did a bunch of things (defragment hard drive, ran ccleaner for temp files and did some registry cleanup, tried the whole editing options of my connection and maybe more but I can't remember) and the only thing that worked was using command prompt to restore original settings to the internet connection.

I thought all was well until I said all was well and then the computer crash dumped again. I found out it was a compatibility issue with vista and the nvidia chipset + more than 2GB of RAM (I have 4GB). The fix was a download of the updates, which seems to have fixed it but I knock on wood.

So now... I'm trying to view photos with windows photo gallery and when I double click on a thumbnail, or right click and "view with windows photo gallery", a black screen shows up where the picture should be. I see the list of editing options, but the photo screen is black.

Any ideas??

I have the exact same issue and i think mine started around the time that i reloaded vista on my computer. did you ever solve the issue?