Troubles and successes with running Hipihi under Windows XP English

[Sue Baskerville ( SuezanneC Baskerville )]

When I first tired to run Hipihi under Windows XP, Hipihi displayed
the opening screen and then just vanished.

I've made some progress some progress now, but not enough.

By making some selections in the Control Panel Regional and Language
Settings dialogs, I've made it past the initial screen display and on
to the Login screen.

I can enter my Hipihi user name, which displays in English characters,
but when I move on to the password field, nothing happens when I press
keys. No new characters appear. The cursor doesn't move.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hipihi, in the event you haven't heard, is a new virtual world,
someone like Second Life, currently in beta testing. For more info,
see www.hipihi.com, for Chinese speakers, or http://www.hipihi.com/index_english.html
for the English page.