Crashing and Graphics problem

[P-Sleazy]

Ok...so I have two issues.

The first issue, (the bigger of the two). I recently installed Age of Empires I & II on my laptop. 1 runs fine (to the extent I've played it sofar). but AOE II crashes and it takes my whole system with it meaning I have to hold the powerbutton to turn the computer off and then power back on. It does this mostly in the menu screens (the opening menu, the multiplayer menu, and the tech tree menu) however, it does occassionally (and this is rare) crash during game-play. It also happens right when I click a menu button (like start game or single player or close for the tech-tree).

Now, the second problem is a graphics related problem with AOE II and Starcraft (the original) (also, AOE I graphics are just fine for some reason). Its the reverse problem for both games so in AOE II the menus all look fine, in their intended color but in game alot of the colors are off so that the water looks purple and 4 of the players on the radar share the same color (yellow and orange both take yellow on the radar and blue and purple both take blue on the radar, but thier individual units still show up as thier respective color when they are on screen). In starcraft, the menus are all discolored (severely) and in-game everything is the color it should be (to the extent I've noticed).

Also, a note for starcraft is that the graphics related issue to discolor its menus is only a recent development in the game as I have played it a few months ago and the menus were not discolored, whereas with AOEII I just re-purchased it a few weeks ago and never bothered to ask about this problem till now.

Ok, now for what kind of system I'm running since I'm sure you're all gonna ask that.

Windows 7 64-bit
ATI Radeon HD 3200
4GB RAM
300 GB hard-disk
AMD Turion X2 Dual-Core Mobile RM 75 2.2

any help at all would be greatly appreciated!