Hi gang - I posted a message about the dreaded black screen of death when
going into windows mode on the Allakazam site.  This fix was posted in the
newsgroup - I tried it and it works for me:

I was having the same problem, using winXP and GeForce FX5600.  Alt-tab was
broken and if I switched between window and full screen it would go black
and then crash.

I found this fix on the EQ boards and this worked for me:

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 Here is what I did this morning, I hope it helps you. Right click on the
desktop and open up the Settings on the display properties pop-up. Click the
advanced button and then the tab for my video card (GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE). I
selected the Performance and Quality Section of that area and unselected the
"application-controlled" check box on the Antialiasing settings.
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Here is the link to the thread if you want to read it all:

http://eqforums.station.sony.com/eq/board/message?board.id=tech&message.id=14494
&highlight=alt+tab+compatibility+toolkit&no_redir=true

Basically, this turns off antialiasing (I left the antialiasing slider at
"0"). I have no idea why this worked. I assume they have incompatible code
for many of our video cards and that once they fix it on their end, we can
turn antialiasing back on.

Hope this helps!

Lou in NJ