This might be of interest to those of you that have Windows XP and DirectX 9 installed. From The Inquirer.net.

ANTONIO TRAPANESE at Italian site hardware irc says he has now heard back from Microsoft about the problem with DirectX 9 that he reported at the end of December! It can be solved with the SP1, by uninstalling FS2002, installing Windows XP Service Pack 1, and then re-installing FS2002.