Welcome to the boards, Jezzrian. May the skies grow brighter with your presence.
In addition to the virtual dub stuff that Wyvern mentioned, you may also need to flip the "Win95 compatibility bit" in the icon properties. Full details are in the Tech Tips thread, the place where Activision support comes to look for answers
In the front of the thread, you'll find the list of things we'd like to know in order to get things working properly. We can make it work... we haven't been stumped yet (although we were close once...)