Sims Deluxe with Alcohol Crash to Desktop

[alfagtv]

Except I don't even get the preview. The burn and install all went smoothly, but no joy when launching the game....sits on the splash screen for ages and then throws up an error.
Tried it on XP sp1 and Windows 2000 Sp2 (is this even supported?)...the Sysinfo test shows all pass!

Tried unistalling all DivX codecs and reinstalling direct X (now v9) without joy. I'm starting to suspect the burn as I've never used Alcohol before.
Kusaywa, when you burnt it, did you select both SafeDisc 2 and RAW DAO. I couldn't seem to choose SAFEDISC 2 with this option? Had to choose something like DAO/SUB ...
Could this be the problem?

Also I don't or never had any previous versions or expansions packs ever installed.

Any advice welcome
Alfa