Windows Live Writer Won't Pull Tag List From Blog

When I try and refresh my tag list, WLW locks up and reports an error. I have a self-hosted copy of the latest wordpress, everything is updated … yada yada yada. So whenever I try and update my tags list in windows liver writer, the program locks up on me. I went so far as to remove the account and re-add it. I also checked my xmlrpc file and as far as i can tell, it is perfectly fine. I posted this on the WLW forums but they don’t seem active so i hope someone here might be.

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