Spore Creature Creator Crash?

Well lookie here, looks like Andy can't get a game running. The SHAME!

OK, my Dell Dimension E521 running Vista Business SP1 does NOT like Spore
Creature Creator. (single core, 1 gig ram, integrated HD audio chip
(SigmaTel), GeForce 7300 LE PCIe card)

I installed the Trail version yesterday and no problems. I used the EA
Downloader to download the full version and quickly found out that you had
to uninstall the trial to get the full version to install correctly.

After installing the full version, I started the game and the game crashes
shortly after the EA Logo appears on screen.

I went through my registry and striped out all the Spore entries and
reinstalled, but I am getting the same crash on start-up.

Any ideas? I am willing to wager it's just a crash and will probably run OK
at home, and so far my online searches haven't come up with any discussion
threads about it. I find it odd because the Trial version worked OK
yesterday. Maybe I'll reboot a couple more times.

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-A.