I too am plagued with this on some of our workstations more the others. 

Did this solve your issue?

There are a few related posts including the one George4Tacks included with additional solutions.

https://proconnect.intuit.com/community/help-articles/help/exception-in-initprocessing-catastrophic-...

https://proconnect.intuit.com/community/help-articles/help/error-when-opening-lacerte-tax-access-vio...

Regarding the FORCE Setup, the first option is relevant to a NETWORK install and really should be the second step IMHO.  It assumes the networks SETUP folder is correct.  The second step runs the FORCE and UPDATES the Networks files (in a network config) and then the client from which the FORCE was run.  Point being that if you have more than one workstation with an issue, you need to run option 2 first and then option one on (all) impacted workstations.

If you are having this issue, you probably should also be aware of this too

https://proconnect.intuit.com/community/help-articles/help/firewall-and-anti-virus-software-configur...

and less directly relevant but this too

https://proconnect.intuit.com/community/help-articles/help/common-settings-for-lacerte-system-admini...