I thought maybe something within the game had been corrupted so I decided to reinstall. When I run the install, the "initalizing setup" % bar comes up and just hangs at 99 or 100%. After about 5 minutes, it runs. I can install but the problem never goes away.
WindowsXP
SP2
Pentium 4 2.6GHz
1G ram
ATI 9800 pro