A free program that doesn't work??

I am new to my mac and I downloaded the freeware 'Plot 0.992' from the Mac downloads page. Well, stuffit expander did its thing and I have a Plot folder on my desktop with the program inside.
When I click of the program Plot appears on my toolbar, and bounces a couple of times, and then disappears again. I never get to try the program out. Any ideas?
Also, I downloaded another freeware program and what I think is the program itself looks like a document icon. I click 'get info' and it tells me it is a document. Is there a way to tell? If this is an installer then what can I use to open it?
G4 dual 512 proccessor Mac OS X (10.2.x) HUGE SPEAKERS!!!!

drum_mind,
Yes, as Donny suggests, the System Requirements are for 10.4 and later. Have a look at this page for the SR's:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/math_science/3ddatavisualizer.html
hope that helps some,
littleshoulders [:-)

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