I loaded a game that I didn't feel like playing at that time, so I went to new game from main menu, selected the altar faction, then the following screenshot shows the choose opponents, and two of the factions are shown twice.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8949112/zip%20files/Elemental_1279681603.jpg
EDIT:
I had the game going when I alt tabbed over to post this message and the game crashed. Relevant files below:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8949112/zip%20files/debug%20%282%29.err
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8949112/zip%20files/Elemental0_92-2010-07-20T23-02-41-207.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8949112/zip%20files/DxDiag.txt
