I am at my wits end....

I have an inspiron 1420 intel centrino duo...(whatever that is?) and It is running VISTA....

I want to play the NBA Jam TE that I just purchased on E-Bay...(yes I have the original CD)....

The Problem: I did some research and relised I needed DosBox to run the game....so I downloaded it, installed the game and it worked!!!....or so I thought....

After hitting enter at the title screen and entering my name and birthdate and selecting my team everything was fine....the tonights match-up screen appears fine and then continues to a "Loading game" screen....

this is the problem....that is as far as it goes!!!...it freezes i guess and stays on that screen never getting to the actual playing of the game...

What I have Tried: More research had me download and swap the Dos4gw.exe with Dos32a.exe....I did this and the same problem remains...

I have looked at all info on this forum and none of it has helped...I am no wizz on a computer and have read info on changing the config file in DosBox in regards to the resolution of the screen thinking this may help...

Now I can't do that because of something about not being the administrator or such....

PLEASE HELP....I have sat on my damn computer for days looking for solutions....