Well the "Classic" version that I've got 1.20 doesn't work too well, but I'm not done experimenting, and I've got some other things that I can try. I'll be sure to post results in hopes that it helps somebody else. Thanks for the reply.
I'm coming back to modeling after 13 years, which is kinda hard but not as much as getting my old RealFlight working...
Has anybody tried getting RealFlight working over VMWare Player on Win XP SP2?
Using the RockFire USB converter I still get that "l:\kelib\directdraw\dxdirectinput.cpp" error...