After a nasty crash caused by a virus I had to reinstall Empire and Darthmod and then simply could not get beyond the DME loading screen before it told me that Empire had stopped working. Invariably, when I checked a file failed to validate and was reacquired. Nothing seemed to work until I spotted a suggestion by a poster named didz on Steam Community that all script files should be deleted, not just preferences. It worked. DME loaded. Now I need to see if I can get Bran Mac's mod going and I'll be good as new.