ConradCoggs: I installed the June 2010 DirectX runtime package that they suggest in the general help but it did nothing.
TheEnigmaticT: Have you sent in a support ticket?
[[EDIT]] Also, suggested from a
completely different thread, you may try deleting (or, I'd suggest to avoid complications if it mucks everything up, renaming) directdraw.dll, or else trying a few edits to the config file. No idea if this could help you at all, but you may want to read over the thread and see if any of that will help you.
I did sent in a support ticket but i have not heard anything back. At least i think i did... now I'm second guessing myself.
On a update note, during my last attempt to get the game to run i got an error when i tried to ALT TAB out. The error read
"D3D Error: D3DRR_invalidcall(135)"
Hope that's some insight