Lightroom crashes, won't import catalog

I added a couple of pictures to a collection via "drag and drop". I selected one and opened the Develop window and got a message something like "unexpected error". I exited Lightroom and restarted. While Lightroom is initializing and has drawn all the windows I get the Microsoft Dialog "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has encountered a problem". Dismissing that I get a Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library error "The exception unknown software error (0x0000015) occurred in the application at location 0x605dabf6. Click OK to terminate the program. Then I get a dialog Program E:\Prog... R6025 - Pure virtual function call". When I click OK Lightroom goes away.
I restarted and held down the CTRL key. I then let Lightroom test the integrity of the database. That finished successfully, but Lightroom then crashed the same as above.
I then restarted and held down the CTRL key again. I created a new catalog and Lightroom came up correctly. I then tried to import the old catalog. I get a Warning dialog "Cannot import from this catalog at this time. The catalog is either in use by another copy of Lightroom or was closed improperly. If it was closed improperly, please consider doing an integrity check when opening".
There's no other copy of Lightroom running. I rebooted. I did the integrity check and it seemed to pass. So I'm stuck at my end. I'd rather not lose the whole day's work if I could avoid it. I do have a backup from yesterday, but I'm hoping there's another solution.

Lacking any other alternative, I tried to restart Lightroom the next morning with the intent of looking for other options, and it opened without complaint and all was well.
I'm glad it worked, but it doesn't make me feel real comfortable about the program.
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Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:06:11 -0700
From: [email protected]
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