First off , until you said you could we were under the impression that NOBODY running Vista or Win7 could get the intro to run under any circumstances so this is "big news" to us
Second, go to the sticky section at the top of the forum and click on the thread:
Wide screen BETA test - for CD owners only thread and DL the Beta EXE, follow the instructions and you will have widescreen support for your laptop. This will be included in the next patch for both games but we posted this here back in July for players to try