Actually, if I use this patch it crashes more than if I leave it unpatched, weird... Uh, I did get a BSoD once while running it with this patch on, first I've gotten on this computer... I'm using XP too.
Oh, after reading through some of this stuff I remembered that sometimes it won't start up... it doesn't give me an error message or anything, unless it just blips past too fast to see, but, uh, yeah... this really only happend when I used this patch, I'ma try using the older patch now, though.