[texhax] Trouble with different document classes

[Nitsan Ben-Gal]

Hi All,

I hope you can help me with this.  I have used LaTex to create homework 
assignments for my students and write my dissertation without any 
difficulty.  But in trying to create a poster and more recently trying to 
write a journal article I keep having the same issues, and cannot produce 
any output.  I am currently working with the class "elsarticle" and cannot 
even run the template file.  Here is my input and output, excluding all 
the commented out options in the input.

Input:

\documentclass[preprint,12pt,authoryear]{elsarticle}

\usepackage{amssymb}

\journal{Nuclear Physics B}

\begin{document}
\begin{frontmatter}

\title{Blahdiddy blah}
\author{me}
\address{}

\begin{abstract}
\end{abstract}

\begin{keyword}
\end{keyword}

\end{frontmatter}

\section{}
\label{}

\begin{thebibliography}{00}

\bibitem[ ()]{}

\end{thebibliography}
\end{document}

\endinput


("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\graphics\keyval.sty"
Package: keyval 1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
\KV at toks@=\toks14
)
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\graphics\graphics.sty"
Package: graphics 2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)

("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\graphics\trig.sty"
Package: trig 1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
)
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\00miktex\graphics.cfg"
File: graphics.cfg 2007/01/18 v1.5 graphics configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
)
Package graphics Info: Driver file: dvips.def on input line 91.

("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\graphics\dvips.def"
File: dvips.def 1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
))
\Gin at req@height=\dimen104
\Gin at req@width=\dimen105
)
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\psnfss\pifont.sty"
Package: pifont 2005/04/12 PSNFSS-v9.2a Pi font support (SPQR)
LaTeX Font Info:    Try loading font information for U+pzd on input line 
63.

("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\psnfss\upzd.fd"
File: upzd.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for U/pzd.
)
LaTeX Font Info:    Try loading font information for U+psy on input line 
64.

("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.8\tex\latex\psnfss\upsy.fd"
File: upsy.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for U/psy.
)

The build description window at this point says "GUI framework cannot be 
initialized and proceeds to open a dvi of the last thing I produced.

I do have the upsy and upzd files, from 2006 according to my computer.

Sorry about the glut of info, I didn't know what would be useful.

Any help would be appreciated!

Sincerely,
Nitsan Ben-Gal