Rhand,
I suspect you have the same problem I did which was that your drivers are not up to date. Go to the web-site of the company that makes the drivers for you graphics card and find the latest patch. The version you are running probably doesn't support version 9.0 of DirectX. (Take a look at my other thread to see what Raze suggested and what finally worked for me.) Don't give up. It took me 2 days of trying before I finally figured out what I was doing wrong.
Lewis H.
