Error in Preview and Publish

I am experiencing similar issues.  Running Windows 7 Enterprise.  Long time Articulate user (since Studio '09).  Upon installing SL3 I have not been able to publish or preview even a blank presentation.  This is affecting half of my team.  We have our internal IT as well as the Articulate Support team working on it and no one can figure anything out.

Those of you who had similar issues, was there anything that eventually solved your problem (or was it more of a corrupt slide/image issues.

This is the error report that is generated when the error popup comes up.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<ErrorReport xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
 <FirstName></FirstName>
 <LastName></LastName>
 <EmailAddress></EmailAddress>
 <MachineName></MachineName>
 <HardwareId></HardwareId>
 <Message>Object reference not set to an instance of an object.</Message>
 <StackTrace> at Articulate.Drawing.DirectWrite.DirectWrite.a(LocalizedStrings A_0, String A_1)
 at Articulate.Drawing.DirectWrite.DirectWrite.a(Font A_0, String A_1)
 at Articulate.Drawing.DirectWrite.DirectWrite.a(FontFamily A_0, String A_1, String A_2)
 at Articulate.Drawing.DirectWrite.DirectWrite.a[a](String A_0, FontStyle A_1, Func`6 A_2, FontCollection A_3, Nullable`1 A_4, Nullable`1 A_5)
 at Articulate.Player.PlayerText.Fonts.Save(IPlayerService service, bwContent content)
 at Articulate.Player.PlayerWriter.Write(IPlayerContentProvider contentProvider)
 at Articulate.Design.Publish.TargetContext.PublishBackgroundWorker.OnDoWork(DoWorkEventArgs e)
 at Articulate.ComponentModel.STABackgroundWorker.a(Object A_0)</StackTrace>
</ErrorReport>