elemental wont install properly, cant update, and impulse is crashing

ok, lot of bad crap happend all at once here so....(takes deep breath)

when I try to install elemental it goes through the entire install proccess, once its finished it hits a fatal error and closes, but I find the program has indeed installed so I have no idea what error it's hittting

when I play the game it wants me to update to 1.11 but when I try I get to my next problem:

impulse crashes after loggin, don't know why but it comes up with a window thats says "impulse has encountered a problem and needs to close" and prompts me to send a error report

lets see what else,

I tried reinstalling both programs but to no avail

elemental is not in the list of games in impulse, so mabey it's trying to find it and crashing

this happend after the latest update to impulse

I have to go to the elemental directory and start the application from there

I'm running on vista 64bit

please and thankyou