I've got all of the previous tutorials to work properly. This one however gives me a runtime error as soon as it is started. No sprites are loaded, only the window is created. Still haven't been able to figure out why.

Are you using Windows? You should see a file called stdout.txt and/or stderr.txt. There should be some debugging information in there. Could you check for the file and let me know what it says?

Yes, I am using windows (Visual Studio 2005) but couldn't find either file when I searched my project folder. I have to go to work right now so I won't be able to tinker with it for another 6 hours. I have it setup as a console application. I'm not sure if it will make a difference to change it to a win32 application instead. I'll let you know in a bit. Any further help would be much appreciated.

Well, I went ahead and compiled tutorial 7 and that worked for some reason without a problem. I guess if any other windows users are having problems with tutorial 6, try number 7. GREAT WEBSITE!!! These tutorials have taught me A LOT!!!