Sins 1.14 Crash Bug

In regards to the latest update I've noticed an issues when I try to design new maps to play on.  Every time I try to access the create new map feature or use a previously built map Sins crashes and provides the following error.  Anyone else seeing this and is there a fix?

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime Error!

Program: ... Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Sins of a Solar Empire.exe

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.

Please contract the application's support team for more information.

For some additional information I completely unloaded Sins and then reloaded and updated to v1.14.  As soon as I click on the map designer button or try to go past the large maps in a single player game the program immediately locks up and crashes with the above error.  Having been a Software QA analyst I can tell you this is a bug and not an old map issue.