robot c error

I am taking a class through Carnegie Mellon and I am at home during the xmas break from school. So I am installing it on my laptop at home. I have downloaded robotc on my laptop at home it is win xp ser pack 3 and it should be fine for running this program. My only thought is my computer is too old to run it. I keep getting a failed to create empty document then it closes and wants to send a error report. I have searched the forums and have found a few answers to this problem when the robot c program was a beta program. I am not running a beta version so I started a new thread I hope someone out there can help me.