This gets weirder but the problem is fixed. I just was putzing around and changed the audio name back to what it was expecting the game to lock up again but nope - it worked and I have sound. Must have been the Martians!
Thanks again for your help.

Hello again,
Good news and bad news - I renamed the audio folder and the video folder and the game runs! I was able to update it to 1.22 and it still runs.
The bad news is I have no sound.
An tips there?
Thanks again.

Hello VPaulus,
Thanks for getting back to me. I made the change you suggested but no improvement. I hit play and it locked up the computer as before.

Have installed game several times. Everytime it says installed ok then I hit play and the PC locks up totally. Have to manually shut down and restart.
Please help as this looks like a great game!
Thanks in advance for your help.

Turned out to be my video card drivers were downlevel. Thanks Paulo!

I tried that and did the repair thing but the game still won't work. I opened a bug report.[:(]