this is probably a stupid suggestion, but look at the CD surface and see if there's any gunk or large scratches on it. I had a problem last Summer where C3C stopped loading altogether. turns out my 2yr old was pulling it out of the CD, with his dirty hands and all. To get it to load (because it needs to read the stupid disc to run
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), I had to clean it.