Eureka! Found a breakthrough and thought I'd share. I installed Mediaportal 1.4 as a fresh install which comes with Fanart Handler version 2.3.1.531.
In Extension Installer it says there is no upgrade available and if you uninstall and reinstall from inside extension installer it re-installs version 2.3.1.531.
Turns out that if you locate the Fanart Handler plugin through the Mediaportal website (https://www.team-mediaportal.com/extensions/other/fanart-handler) it downloads version 3.1.0.0.
After uninstalling 2.3.1.531 and installing version 3.1.0.0 everything seems to work fine again.
Hope this rectifies your problem too Glen.
Best,
Rich
p.s. it's always something simple isn't it?
p.p.s just looked back at your "fanarthandler_config" log file and found this:
05-Nov-2013 20:52:02 Info [ FanartHandler]: Fanart Handler version is 2.3.1.531
so it looks like it is the same problem
In Extension Installer it says there is no upgrade available and if you uninstall and reinstall from inside extension installer it re-installs version 2.3.1.531.
Turns out that if you locate the Fanart Handler plugin through the Mediaportal website (https://www.team-mediaportal.com/extensions/other/fanart-handler) it downloads version 3.1.0.0.
After uninstalling 2.3.1.531 and installing version 3.1.0.0 everything seems to work fine again.
Hope this rectifies your problem too Glen.
Best,
Rich
p.s. it's always something simple isn't it?
p.p.s just looked back at your "fanarthandler_config" log file and found this:
05-Nov-2013 20:52:02 Info [ FanartHandler]: Fanart Handler version is 2.3.1.531
so it looks like it is the same problem
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