Lilypond 2.2 installs but software doesn't launch

[Tom Duda]

Hello

Because I don't see that Lilypond 2.3 has been ported to Windows, I downloaded 
and installed 2.2. When I launch lilypond-bin.exe, I see an empty Command 
Prompt for a few seconds and then it closes.

My OS is Win XP Media Center with all critical updates installed. My CPU is 
Pentium IV 2.6 gHz with 512 megs RAM and 30+ gigs free space on the partition 
in which Lilypond resides. pagefile.sys is 1.6 gigs.

When I ran setup.exe, I left all packages at "Default" except for the folder 
that contains Lilypond. In that folder, I selected Lilypond and accepted the 
other items that became active in that folder. If it matters, I chose 
planetmirror.org as the source server.

What is most frustrating is that I have just one music score, apparently 
consisting of three files, that I want to see. For some reason, the person who 
made the score available did not save it in PostScript format. I have two files 
with a .ly extension and one with .lytxt extension.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. :-)

Tom Duda