Crashes Best on Sound Blas

I got the PMCIA card and the demo disk called "Sounds Best on Sound Blaster". It looks interesting and I'd love to take a closer look at the CD but it keeps crashing. I get a big black box in the middle of the screen with a thin white outline. I can't alt-tab out of it and the box never goes away - it covers everything underneath it. The rest of the demo seems to play ok except for this mysterious box, which prevents me from accessing the controls. I restarted the program about 5 times and once the box didn't show up. But when I tried to look at the game demos, it appeared in the right-side window instead and did the same thing. I eventually had to quit the program again and after that, the bigger box appeared in the middle at the start.
Does this make sense? Thanks.

Append to that. I also tried the other demo CD that came with my card: "Creative DVD-Audio Sampler Disc". It didn't BEGIN to work. Couldn't get past the opening screen. What's up with the sound blaster demo software? It really, really, really, really worries me about all the money I spent on the hardware.
Btw, I'm on an AMD gaming laptop. Don't know if that makes a difference. It shouldn't.

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