Sigh, another "FS9 freezes" thread

I consider myself lucky as I've never had issues with FS9 until today. I did search the forums and found some useful information, but none that has helped remedy my situation.Here's the symptoms:- FS9 freezes at startup and does not completely load. Task Manager showed it as not responding. This has taken on a few different forms. At various times the startup froze while "Building Scenery Database" at 92%, 93%, and at 97%, not necessarily in that order after various attempts at fixes by removing recently installed repaints and AFCADS and reverting to older, backup versions of scenery.cfg.FS9 now partially boots, but I receive many error messages as follows.Image "dlgstdtrans.bmp" cannot be loadedImage "fldstd.bmp[3]" cannot be loadedImage "fldstd.bmp[6]" cannot be loadedImage "dlgalert.bmp" cannot be loadedImage "iconinfo.bmp" cannot be loadedThere is a series of ~20 more, similar dialogue boxes like these that open when starting FS9, which now, eventually starts, but there is nothing in FS that really functions. It