When Aleph One starts, it also starts about 180 CLI.exe processes. I believe they have something to do with my graphics card drivers (an ATI Radeon 9250). It also seems to happen with another SDL game, so I'm not sure if this is a specific bug or something to do with SDL. This seems to happen regardless of whether it is started in OpenGL or software mode.
Can you try getting support from the SDL guys on this