20 mins to load the game, or to start the game, i.e go into menus? if it is load the game then there was a patch for that on pcs with more than 1 cd drive. however it loads very quickly on my lappy. for the network to work, you have to configure it to run over ipx in windows, there are some websites out there which tell you how.
damn dont knock an excellent game when you cant be arsed to google your problems.
daven