Ok, here's the deal. I've read the entire readme file at least 100 times and I tried a wide variety of things in dosbox but I still don't get the following to work:

I want to run a game. The game's executable is on my D drive. I start up dosbox and get a Z:\ prompt. I type:

mount c d:\[the entire path towards the dir where the .exe is located]

It says it has mounted c on the d drive at the path of the .exe. Now here's where I'm stuck. I have tried typing:

dosbox [name] with name being the entire path including the .exe file.
[name].exe with name being just the name of the executable.
cd C: to try and switch to the c drive, just says it can't
cd D: same as above.

I don't get it, what am I doing wrong here? Please do explain, because I really love the game and hate to see it lost in WinXP.