Woah. Hey. I'm not trying to be a jerk and I'm sorry if I gave off that vibe. I'm just not a techie, that sort of stuff is extremely obtuse to me. I don't understand it, and I don't care to mess with it.
I'm running Vista. I assumed it wouldn't have problems because... I mean... Vista.
I'm sure it's a daunting task, but it's a task that I assumed would be taken care of by now because I, and most likely the majority of gamers who are used to getting things the easy way have problems, come here, start reading and say to themselves "well it's a cool old game but I don't need to read through all of this gobbledygook, and get 3rd party programs just to run one old game when I have new stuff on Steam just... hangin out, waiting... calling my name softly"