Would it be doable to get a windows version of 0.5b?
In the meantime, I'll go ahead and try a fresh install of 0.5a, just in case something somehow managed to get corrupted on my first install, or something? I'm not sure how anything like that could've happened, but at this point it's the only thing I can think of as to why I could be experiencing a bug that stubbornly refuses to be replicated on the dev's own system.
Edit: Wow... apparently that's exactly what I needed to do? Now I feel bad for how much time you spent debugging something that was just... idk, internet ghosts messing with my initial download/install in the most arbitrary way, or something?
Thanks for all the help trying to figure this out anyway, thought!