Demo 1.08 [exception : buffer error] landing troops

I wondered if this is common for others but I have a problem with the demo, I cannot land troops from a transport in either tactical or strategic mode on a new enemy colony.

I set the fleet taskforces to capture the planet, one was escort task force of two frigates and the other was a transport TF of one transport carrying 28 small troops. They automatically did the right thing.

But then I get the ground combat notification followed by combat finished notification and on accepting that I get the exception and a white screen, every time without exception after several goes at it.

On accepting the error I getanother exception "Access violation at address 0047FB46 in module 'se5.exe'. Read of address 00000000"

I am using

ASRock Dual SATAII mobo,
with AMD SanDiego 3700+ CPU,
ATI X850XTpe AGP VGA Cat 6.9,
1024Mb RAM TwinMOS Winbond BH5.

EDIT - I tried this with just the transporter and no fleet and I tried the fleet at a different planet and the same bug happened after the end of combat, combat lasted longer than the time to drop troops though as there was an enemy frigate as well. FYI