This is my first time browsing the forums to any real capacity, however, I was told going here would be the best way of trying to resolve my problem.
A few days ago, I installed the most recent patch to SK for Steam, and the patch went along fine, as it usually does. The key thing here is? The game refuses to boot at all, due to it not being able to under the Java virtual machine. I uninstalled Java, reinstalled it, made sure it was the most recent release as well. Still can't get any farther besides it not being able to boot the Java virtual machine.