IT IS FIXED.
I had to go to the Microsoft Download Centre for something else, and while looking through the list of available updates I found one which said :
update for "game crashes immediately after video plays" which was caused by installation of patch ***** for ****.
Or something similar anyway. So I added it to my list, downloaded it, restarted the comp. And BINGO. Game started as normal. So thanks for all your help guys, but it appears the culprit was an update installed when the comp was rebooted from disk. It was Microsoft all along. Have a great day.
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Berik
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