Lately I've had some serious glitches with my gaming computer, and as a
temporary network troubleshooting effort as much as anything, installed a couple
of games on my work computer as a control test. As it turns out, this measure
may be more than temporary, as this machine seems to not only clear up the
problem I was addressing, and plays everything I've tried so far flawlessly, in
spite of this machine's use of Windows 2000 Professional, which Microsoft
readily admits is not very well suited for game playing. Go fig.
R.I.P.: Bee Gees singer Maurice Gibb dies.
Thanks ZigZang.