I just downloaded the game (1.1 or something), then got an error, so I uninstalled it and looked on the glest.org website and downloaded Glest 2.0. installed that, and got a very similar error.
its perfect until i click 'play now!' when i try and start a new game, it scrolls a bunch of loading lines, then quits with this error msg:
ERROR(S):
Error loading Faction Types: techs/magitech
Error loading units: techs/magitech/factions/magic
Error loading UnitType:
Error opening log fileglest.log