AAAAAAAHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I installed DirectX 8.1 and what happens?
My computer turns into a heap of junk.
When trying to load up it had about 6 errors before auto-shutting down.
Thankfully I managed to more or less fix it. Not my computer is running slow as hell though and a couple of things wont work.
Stupid DirectX.
"by the way, when you said you upgraded your computer, did you mean the hardware, or the operating system?"
Hardware.
I suppose I can get Windows 2000 as long as its not too much hastle installing it.