Sounds like a bigger problem. Redo your drivers, sound, video, directx. Make sure your autoplay isn't hanging up in general. XP has been known to toast it on rare occasions, particularly due to other software installed.
If you continue having problems and it turns out to be specific to the sins disk, you may have a bum disk. In which case you can take it in for an exchange. Of course, you can download this all through impulse as well, so there's that option too.
