Game problem with new 17" iMac (got it 3 days ago)

This has happened about 6 times now while playing the starcraft on my new 17" iMac computer. While playing all of a sudden the game will crash and give me a error message which says that due to a unknown error the application starcraft has been forced to close...I just bought this computer because I heard they are more reliable then PC's but what is going on, I really don't know where to post this question but the game requires the cd-rom to be in the drive to play it so I don't know if it is a cd-rom problem or problem with the actual computer...please help me out here.
System information:
Hard Drive - 500gb
Ram - 2 gb
Processor - dual core 2.16
CD Drive - Superdrive
if you need to know anything else just let me now.
17" iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Theorectically, it should run as long as it has been patched.
From Blizzard's support site:
At this time we have not announced plans to release a Universal Application update for our older titles to natively support Intel Macs. All existing titles that natively support Mac OS X (including StarCraft) will run on Intel-based Macs via the Rosetta binary translator included with Mac OS X.
StarCraft will require the Mac OS X Native Installer to install and play the game on an Intel-based Macintosh computer. Recent shipments of StarCraft include a Mac OS X Native Installer on the installation disc. However, players without a Native Installer on their installation disc may need to download the installer from our Patch Installation web page.
At this time there is no Carbon version of the StarEdit (StarCraft Campaign Editor) application, and there are currently no plans to create one. StarEdit will not run on an Intel-based Mac as a result since the Classic environment is not supported under Mac OS X.
StarCraft patches (including the game and Mac OS X native one) can be found here:
http://www.blizzard.com/support/?id=msc0411p
There are also special instructions available there. I don't play StarCraft so I can't guarantee success but this is your best bet for now. Good luck.
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