Well, I don't know about any problems you might be having, Zen, but I'm able to run MoM on my XP Professional machine just fine. Tuskerlove, what I did was edit the properties of the magic.exe file. I run it in Win95 compatibility mode, with all memory settings set to Auto, and the HMA box under Extended Memory checked. This gets it to run, for me. Now, I don't know how to set the sound options to get it to recognize my sound card, but that's secondary.
Hope this helps.
Scott