differently how? do you mean besides leaving the api version 6.1 instead of making it 7.0?

See that's just it--none of the articles I read that in ever said HOW, they just said "microsoft is handling it differently", I couldn't find any real information on how!  That's why I don't know if it's good different or bad different.

VinceP seemed like he wanted to play DOS games without dosbox.

I finally got a harddrive so I could install this, and it's still giving me the same error about having some failing device.  The ONLY device I can think of at this point would have to be my CD drive, yet unlike my old harddrives it's not having any actual problems.  The only advice I could find online about this (besides other ones that I've tried that haven't helped at all) are that it's giving me that for not having the SATA drivers, but I don't have a floppy sitting around to copy them from the CD.  Why couldn't my dang motherboard just come with the drivers ON a floppy?

So, I'm putting XP on that machine (which is going just fine so I don't know what Windows 7's problem is) because I really want a Windows machine right now for a handful of games and it's the machine I have hooked up to my TV to watch videos from.  I guess when I can get a hold of a floppy I'll try again, but did anyone else get this error before?

Also has anyone installed the 32 bit version on a 64 bit machine?  I doubt that would be the error it would give me for that but that's the only other conflict I could think of, which still shouldn't be an issue, I just downloaded the wrong one and didn't want to redownload it.