Huh. Under the original demo, I had no troubles with a load-freeze like some of the other Jornada owners. Under 1.01, though, I now have a loading freeze right after I hit "deploy" for the 1st mission.
I've since deleted the old .exe and loaded the one Carpe posted, and now when I try to run Argentum,
I get the initial black loading screen for a moment, but then the screen goes to a white-background screen with start-bar stuff up top, and a pop-up window that says "File not found" in the title-bar, and inside: "Could not find the file '\main\interface\cross.ibp' ".
It's really annoying to try and try again with that non-skippable tutorial, btw.

I think the key would be to make the tutorial less-accidentally-skippable. Like a big blatant SKIP button would make me happy. Played it last night though, and dug it, aside from massive slowdowns in Mission 4 in gigantic battles with hordes of units... I couldn't really affect the battle much once it had started.
Thanks, and good work!