Open GL conflict with Myth III

When playing Myth 3, the game loads, then goes very, very slow. After this, the game stops, and we get the following error:

MYTH3 caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:00000001.
Registers:
EAX=00000001 CS=017f EIP=00000001 EFLGS=00010202
EBX=000084c1 SS=0187 ESP=0262f808 EBP=00000001
ECX=03880620 DS=0187 ESI=00000000 FS=57d7
EDX=00000000 ES=0187 EDI=00000000 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
01 00 00 00 04 70 00 16 00 0e e3 65 04 70 00 65
Stack dump:
004df3a9 000084c1 00000040 004df321 0387f5a0 00000000 00000001 00000001 000001d4 004de95b 00fef37c 004e1351 0387f5a0 00001403 00000064 004de8c0

After this, the computer reverts to windows 98, but in a reduced pixel format (640 x 800), and the colour of the screen reverts to a very pale colour. Also., the taskbar disappears.

This is only happening after loading openGL to the system, and additionally, open gl seems to be causing conflict with other parts of the system. I have reloaded drivers for the nvidia TNT card, but to no avail.

Heeeeelllllp!

any assistance would be very much appreciated, im a bit of a novice to this thing!