Semaphore never attained during CreateWindow

Hey guys.

Continuing my epic Torque3D process project, I am now at a new stage. I'll take you through it.

I have a DLL called Haxmio. The DLL has a method which, when called, basically tries to spawn Torque3D in a separate thread.

The thread is created with:

hThread2 = CreateThread( 
        NULL,                   // default security attributes
        0,                      // use default stack size  
        threadFunction,       // thread function name
        pData2,          // argument to thread function 
        0,                      // use default creation flags 
        &dwThreadId2);   // returns the thread identifier

As soon as the thread is created, it calls the following, which we basically just took directly from the Torque3D exe:

int (*torque_winmain)( HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE h, LPSTR lpszCmdLine, int nShow) = NULL;

   char filename[4096];
   char gameLib[4096];

   GetModuleFileNameA(NULL, filename, 4096);
   filename[strlen(filename)-4] = 0;
   sprintf(gameLib, "%s", "C:\Torque\Torque 3D 2009 Beta 3\Genre Kits\FPS Genre Kit\game\FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll");

HMODULE hGame = LoadLibraryA(gameLib);
torque_winmain = (int (*)(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE h, LPSTR lpszCmdLine, int nShow))GetProcAddress(hGame, "torque_winmain");

   char error[4096];
   if (!hGame)
   {
      sprintf(error, "Unable to load game library: %s.  Please make sure it exists and the latest DirectX is installed.", gameLib);
      MessageBoxA(NULL, error, "Error",  MB_OK|MB_ICONWARNING);
      return -1;
   }

   if (!torque_winmain)
   {
      sprintf(error, "Missing torque_winmain export in game library: %s.  Please make sure that it exists and the latest DirectX is installed.", gameLib);
      MessageBoxA(NULL, error, "Error",  MB_OK|MB_ICONWARNING);
      return -1;
   }

	LPSTR szOutput("");


	torque_winmain((HINSTANCE)GetModuleHandle(NULL), NULL, szOutput, 1);

   FreeLibrary(hGame);

	return 0;
}

This seems to go fine, but during initialisation Torque hangs waiting for a semaphore. Here's the trace:

>	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!Semaphore::acquire(bool block=true)  Line 45	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!SimConsoleThreadExecCallback::waitForResult()  Line 98 + 0xc bytes	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!Con::execute(int argc=2, const char * * argv=0x06886658)  Line 966 + 0x8 bytes	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!Con::_executef(int checkArgc=2, int argc=2, const char * a=0x0271a230, const char * b=0x0951aef8, const char * c=0x00000000, const char * d=0x00000000, const char * e=0x00000000, const char * f=0x00000000, const char * g=0x00000000, const char * h=0x00000000, const char * i=0x00000000, const char * j=0x00000000)  Line 1084 + 0xd bytes	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!Con::executef(const char * a=0x0271a230, const char * b=0x0951aef8)  Line 1089 + 0x2a bytes	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!GFXCardProfiler::loadProfileScript(const char * aScriptName=0x06886a14)  Line 35 + 0x11 bytes	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!GFXCardProfiler::loadProfileScripts(const char * render=0x0951a998, const char * vendor=0x0951a9e0, const char * card=0x0951aa38, const char * version=0x0951aa88)  Line 46	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!GFXCardProfiler::init()  Line 110	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!GFXD3D9CardProfiler::init()  Line 54	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!GFXPCD3D9Device::init(const GFXVideoMode & mode={...}, PlatformWindow * window=0x095139b8)  Line 384	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!GFXD3D9Device::allocWindowTarget(PlatformWindow * window=0x095139b8)  Line 1101	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!Win32WindowManager::createWindow(GFXDevice * device=0x0956add0, const GFXVideoMode & mode={...})  Line 180 + 0x14 bytes	C++
 	FPS Genre Kit_DEBUG.dll!GuiCanvas::onAdd()  Line 143 + 0x26 bytes	C++

I'm not experienced with windows thread management, and am pretty stuck. Can anyone advise?

Thanks,
Ian