I had a similar problem. What happened is that the patch didn't run properly. Unfortunatly it thinks that it did and will not patch over itself. I reinstalled and repatched and all the problems went away.
In my case it wasn't reading the personality type for the default races (not custom ones, I mean the default ones).
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