If you have other Rockwell software on your laptop, then go online and find the notes on RSView compatibility with other RS apps. There are some that it won't co-exist with. And yeah, RSView32 can be one of those that give you problems; you might try calling RA and asking, or searching KB for that.
Also look at your "CPR" levels (Co-ordinated Product Release) as they are all supposed to be the same. Finally, you might want to bag 3.1 and go to 4.0. The early releases had many more of these problems than 3.2 and 4.0, and even now as usual there are wierd things that happen. When you open an old program, it will convert to 4.0; when you download to the panel, you pick the panel firmware version so no problem. I have a panel at 3.2 that I download to (using ME 4.0) with no problems. Since this is a customer app, keep a backup of the original just in case.
I don't think Linx and load order matters here, as View ME/SE use "Linx Enterprise Edition" which is not RSLinx Classic at all. You may need RSLinx Classic to talk to the processor with your laptop, but View is doing it's own thing.