D5 Pro too many resources ide link error

[kewlbreez]

Hi. Still using Delphi 5 Pro. All was well until I tried to load an application icon in the IDE. Now most applications I try to compile get Link Error too many resources to handle.

Evidently the icon was non-standard and hosed things. But I have no idea how to fix it short of restoring my partition from an image. Google usually shows "deleted the .res file and let the IDE make a new one, then everything worked" or no resolution. Deleting the .res file didn't work for me. The only other resource is a .gif glyph on a button on the form(just one main form application.) I tried removing the glyph and recompiling.. same error. Tried restoring the registry to settings before the icon incident. No joy.
So far I haven't found a clue why a few apps will still compile(usually small test app with one button) and others won't.

The only other clue is when the IDE loads it seems slow.. like something is broken, but it gives no error message when it comes up. I have a bunch of jcl/jvcl components in the palette, but everything was working perfectly until the icon load.

I'm running XP Pro SP 2 on a Pentium 4 with 1 GB ram.
I have installed the D5 Pro Update pack(reinstalled it but it didn't make any difference.)

Anyone run into this before?

 

[kewlbreez]

Oh well, after a Restore Point didn't work I decided it was faster to reinstall the IDE than try to figure out what's wrong with it. Back on the air.