I've tried the million and 1 diffrent settings on the Technical Support page on how to get it running, and yet, everytime I try to run setup.exe, it hangs, pauses there for an infinate amount of time.

Please help, I really want to play...

just a silly question.. you have enough space on you harddrive yet?
It shouldn't be that problem getting the game running with WinXP.
Have you read this supportpage yet?:
http://support.selectsoftusa.com/customer40/ViewCase.asp?Casenum=279&ReturnPage=Search
(You may choose Win98 instead of Win95)

Good luck.

Capt. Ed