NIS 2009: can't open History

hello!

 

in addition to the missing tray icon (no biggie, at least the NIS 2009 service was loaded and running), and being stuck on version 16.0.0.25 (is everyone upgrading via LiveUpdate now?), i can't view my History.

 

clicking on it under "Computer" in the main screen causes the History window to pop up for a few seconds, says "Loading ..." and then it disappears. 

 

anyway fix for this? this was on a fresh install of Vista x64 -- NIS2009 has only been running four days.

 

thanks for any help.