Menu issues after upgrading

Hello,  before upgrading I made a backup of my sins of solar empire directory.  After upgarding via the impulse utility, this is what happens.  All menus are just white spaces, when you move the mouse around and click, just before it changes screens to move too what ever you clicked you see the menu text for a second, then goes back to white, then changes screens to what ever you selec ted.  All screens that have menu options are just a whtte box.  Once getting to the game, the game plays fine, the pnly issue is menu boxes.  The piror vesion which I backe dup works fine.  Any ideas?

Brian