Primitive, I took the liberty of pulling your empire file from your current KOTH game and after a little checking I can say an unequivacal, "WTF?!?!"
Best I can tell your empire file is somehow corrupted. I can setup an identical empire and it will repair, but yours will not. And I tried setting the repair rate on your empire file back to 100% and neutral culture and it still will not repair. You need to throw that one away and make a new one.
The only thing I ever saw anything like this before was one guy who's empire file would cause the game to crash while creating the first turn. You could edit the .emp file and view the settings, everything looked normal, and make all the changes you wanted but if you tried to create a game with it it crashed. Guess this is something similer. Make a new one for next game and your poblem should go away.
Geoschmo
[ October 20, 2003, 20:27: Message edited by: geoschmo ]