Playonline viewer has stopped working after logging in on character

[Liamah]

Hello, i have had this problem lately that whenever i log into FFXI it gives me a black screen and then a message saying "Playonline Viewer has stopped working" then it closes down.
I was playing the game perfectly fine up until a couple of days ago when logging in a ran around for a few seconds and then it gave me the message for the first time.
I decided to completely reinstall the game but still no luck whatsoever so then i as a last resort decided i would start again completely by formatting my hard drive and reinstalling windows. Once i had done all that and then reinstalled the game AGAIN all seemed to be well for about 20 minutes when i decided to go do some leveling in La Thiene Abyssal but when i zoned into La Thiene Abyssal i got the "Playonline Viewer has stopped working" and now upon logging in i cant even run around for a few seconds like before it just goes black screen and then the error message appears.

Now i have done a lot of looking on the itnernet for solution but to no success, i seemed to find alot of people having this issue with NVIDIA graphics cards but i have a ATI Radeon and also people seem to be having the problem when opening POL to be clear is as soon as i log in to my character.

I tried to figure out what was wrong on my own and i found something that may completely irrelevant but when i go into my programs (where you uninstall/change programs) my Steam icon seems to be unrecognized i will give you a link so you can see what i mean;
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/819/81096543.png/


I would really appreciate some help towards getting this issue resolved.

Thank you.