Well I'll be, it was a Direct X Problem. I used to have DX 8.1 on my machine, then a week ago I kept getting a dialog box that kepts saying: DirectDraw Beta Expired. So I went back to 8.0, and apparently that didn't help. I tried a new DX Uninstaller, and went to 7.0a, and everything is back to normal.
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