Does not start new game

[kumquat]

i can go thru the menus perfectly and change my car and everything but when i press start practice it goes into a loading type screen and seems to load but crashes instantly after 30 seconds.

i have tried turning off shaders in the vdrift.config

windows xp sp2
intel celeron 2.93 GHz
1.5 Gigs of ram
Nvidia GeForce 6200(newest drivers)
newest version of the game(vdrift-2008-02-23 Release Candidate)

i have also tried deleting the vdrift.config and try and run it and it says that it is missing and "gives up"