Getting AFL Premiership 2005 to run on XP?

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I'm trying to make this game work. I'm well aware that it will not work on any OS newer than Windows XP, so I've installed it in virtualbox running XP. Several years ago I ran two PCs next to eachother, one with XP so I could play AFL, and the other running Windows 7. The game plays the opening video and then crashes. I had this problem before but it was that I needed to use my CD, and not a no-cd crack to run the version I downloaded. This is the same version I ran on the 'real' XP computer.

Has anyone been able to run this game on XP or on virtualbox?