I think I re-clarified what happened somewhere in here, but just let everyone know I had to do the following before play MTW P&M.

I bought and installed a separate graphics card - Nvidia 7900. After I did that, no more CTDs. It seems you can't run the game off the motherboard graphics set up. If you are still using Windows XP keep it. Vista is a piece of s*#t. Someone else will have to comment on Windows 7.