i guess i should have read the documentation.

<r> Thanks for the response, I agree that this is not an installer issue.<br/>
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I downloaded from this site:<br/>
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<URL url="http://www.matrixgames.com/games/downloads.asp?gid=333">http://www.matrixgames.com/games/downloads.asp?gid=333</URL><br/>
the file size of the zip is 5,583,041 ...

<t> I recieved this game as an early xmas present, downloaded the only thing i could find, version 1.23. I installed the game on 2 seperate machines and when I try to load it i get a dialog indicating the MFC42d.dll could not be found. Both boxes I installed to are XP.<br/>
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to expound ...