That sounds like it should work, although I would go with the more
complete but possibly overkill
;; emacs-lisp
(package-initialize)
(require 'org)
(org-reload)
Let me know if either of the above is sufficient to solve your problem
and ensure that only the latest ELPA version of Org-mode is used through
the entire startup process. If so I will add this to the starter kit.