Can't Decompress International District

Every time I try to go to the International District of any town/outpost, my client freezes while decompressing the last few files. I've tried the following:

-reinstalling GW
-uninstalling and re-downloading and reinstalling GW
-defragging my HD
-defragging the GW files specifically

Any other ideas?

Try starting the game with the "-image" option. See here. This will force the game to download and decompress the whole data file.

That did the trick! Thank you!