Hi Jabmaster2,
I had a very similar problem to yours except coverfloader would reboot. I noticed that it always happened at the end when it tried to load the covers. So, I deleted everything in the covers folder and everything worked again. Also once I downloaded the covers again I didn't have...
My 1500ish games is all hand picked and scraped it's taken me months but zero trash well except MAME.... Tried deleting clones and broke the originals uugghh