Same thing happened with ffvii. I was sure that I wouldn't get it to work. Then, after two days, I uninstalled it and reinstalled it... and it worked. LOL
Then came getting the vids to play (installing a standalone trumotion codec, methinks, fixed it), fixing the black screen problem when character models are implemented in movies (uninstalled k-lite to fix), getting ffvii to run smoothly (changed to win98/2000 compatibility), and then installing all of the other patches (chocobo patch, minigames patch, and other personal preference patches like 9999limit break and transparent windows).