Battlefield 2142 having major problems

After my friend telling me to buy this game over and over again, I finally went out to best buy and bought Battlefield 2142: Deluxe Edition. I went to install it a window popped up telling me that this game has been only tested on Windows XP 32bit, and I have Windows Vista 64bit. I was like no big deal probably will be fine considering my friend runs it fine on the Window 7 beta. I install everything, it attempts to install Direct X 9c, I have 10 so I was like w/e, it off course failed the operation. I then click the activate the Northern Strike button, doesn't open the web browser, but my friend said no one really plays the expansion so I thought no big deal and clicked finish. I then go to press the Start-up icon on my desktop, the regular one not the play online now one. My computer shows the windows circle hourglass and then everything just stops. The time on my computer no longer changes and the mouse is unmovable, can't access CTRL+Alt+Delete, nothing works but hard booting my P.C. I figure it might have been bad install and reinstalled it, same problem. I checked the EAsy info and it showed that my computer's OS couldn't be indentified and it was a failure when it came to the OS test. So I went searching in forums and what not and could not find anything relatively helpful.

I am really at a lose here, I am still going to be trying various routes to get this game running, but I could really use some help here.

Any help is greatly appreciated.