Windower updated - now crashes every time I log in

Hello all, first post here.  I have been using windower 4 for some time now without any issues.  standar plugins such as TPparty, spellcast, timers, etc

Yesterday when I launched windower I saw it auto updating basically everything!  After that happened, everytime I go to log in now, POL crashes.  Basically I hit play in POL, it launches FFXI and I dont even have to hit accept on the first dialog, if I just let it sit while windower is loading all of its plugins, it always crashes here:

plgun: updating resources

plugin: luacore

plugin: spellcast

Enabling MMF inpput from keyboard

Any thoughts?  I have completely disabled all plugins/addons on windower and I can launch the game fine, as soon as I enable something like spellcast, it crashes again.

To note this sounds familiar to the post about crash on switch from POL to FFXI but mine just started yesterday after some update which is why im wondering if its different.

System specs:

Win 7 64bit

GTX 670

8GB RAM

i5 3570K

I am having this same issue, has happened randomly in the past also.

In past occurences, i could simply try again or ignore the popup problem box, and get into the game fine,with most things working as far as I know. but now when i try that it freezes after selecting character.

For me this has just started and its 100% of the time now, and its only after windower updated.

Is it always happening on Spellcast, or any plugin? Either way, we'd need a crash dump.

Thanks, I did a little testing.  It actually is only when spellcast is enabled.  I started enabling plugins 1 by 1 and left spellcast for last.  everytime the game startup normally without crashing, until i enabled spellcast.  I tried installing

but it runs for a bit and looks like its complete but when I check the install directory, nothing was installed...very odd

Anyways, I tried downloading the plugin manager addon and now, for whatever reason, I can load the game fine (spellcast disabled on windower launch profile screen) and use spellcast on my characters (since its enabled in plugin manager for my character).  I don't get it, its working without any issues so far just because of this.

Sounds like SC has a problem while not logged into a character, if I understood correctly. You can help us by submitting a crash dump when the crash happens, that way we can debug it.

Yep that is correct, SC crashes while character is not logged in now after some recent change as this never happened before and I have changed nothing recently.  I am not able to install WinDBG, getting this:

=== Logging started: 12/19/2013  12:15:55 ===
Action start 12:15:55: INSTALL.
Action start 12:15:55: DDSE_CA_Uninstall_InstallExecuteSequenceStarts_amd64.
12/19/13 12:15:55 DDSet_Status: LANGID: 1033
12/19/13 12:15:55 DDSet_Entry: ImmediateDispatch: DDSE_CA_Uninstall_InstallExecuteSequenceStarts entry
12/19/13 12:15:55 DDSet_Error: Patch Hooks: Missing required property 'ProductFamily': Setup cannot continue.
12/19/13 12:15:55 DDSet_Warning: Setup failed while calling 'getDLLName'. System error: Cannot create a file when that file already exists.

any ideas?

I'm really not sure. If you happen to have Visual Studio (which is unlikely, I suppose), then you can use that as well.