Ok thanks for your help people, much appreciated.
However one other problem.
Before i go any further my system specs.
AMD Duron processor, 1.29ghz, 256 ram and a Geforce4 mx 440 graphics card.
Now, I uninstalled and reinstalled GP4, ran it once. Then i installed patch v9.6v1.02.
The team editor (Laurent Rousseau's Team Editor 1.0) seems to work fine, however for example when i pause the game, replay it and try to view from the outside (left arrow), the game crashes back to desktop.
Ive got my graphics set to 1024 *768 on my computer and have the same setting in the game itself. When calibrating the graphics in GP4 it comes up with a "no errors" message, so i gather its fine.
Im dumbfounded by this, any suggestions?