Kies not working, crashes on start up

[Qwksti]

I loaded Kies for my Gs3, on my Dell W7 pc. Keeps crashing on start up. I get the below info from my evet log.

Application: Kies.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception.
Exception Info: System.TypeInitializationException
Stack:
at Un4seen.Bass.Bass.BASS_StreamFree(Int32)
at Kies.Common.MediaPlay.BassManager.Finalize()

and

Faulting application name: Kies.exe, version: 1.0.0.967, time stamp: 0x50a0627f
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17932, time stamp: 0x50327672
Exception code: 0xe0434352
Fault offset: 0x0000c41f
Faulting process id: 0x57c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cdd0e60d5f4785
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Samsung\Kies\Kies.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 4cc30a49-3cd9-11e2-a876-b8ac6fa66728

any way to fix this. Was working for a week, then started to crash. Ive un installed it, then re installed it with re-boots a few times. no dice. Keeps crashing.

Patrick