it's all good and working now Jason. just tried the new beta.
also, i don't know if it's just me or not, but any time i launch .next the loading screen comes up very briefly then disappears for the rest of the load, where you can see launchbox in the taskbar but nothing else appears to be going on for a few seconds and then lb.next comes up.
also, btw, old LB comes up almost twice as fast as lb.next on my somewhat small videoless test/portable setup.
Edit: so weird, now the longer startup of .next has gone away and the few seconds of no loading screen has also gone away.
Edit2: ok happens a few startups after each reboot then goes back to normal