I have essentially the same problem. Except, I click New Game and pick the map and then click ok and the game closes. No error message or anything. I can join someone else's server and play the game fine. But Creating my own game causes it to close.
Edit: This is the installation process I went through.
I found the cstrike folder in:
...program files/steam/steamapps/[username]/counter-strike/
I created addons:
...cstrike/addons
Inside of that folder are the folders:
podbot [which I downloaded and extracted from
http://filebase.bots-united.com/inde...category&id=44 - the fullpack]
metamod
Inside of the metamod folder:
dlls
Inside of the dlls folder:
metamod.dll [which I downloaded and extracted from
http://metamod.org/ -
v1.19 windows Binary ]
plugins.ini [Which I created and put "win32 addons/podbot/podbot_mm.dll" in the notepad without quotes]
And lastly, I edited the file: liblist
Changing it --> gamedll "addons\metamod\dlls\metamod.dll"