If it's the same Rick Ribbit I think it is, why aren't you playing it in DOSBox? RR is an older program, and not likely to run well under Windows XP, even with the compatibility modes.
Grab DOSBox from
here, and use one of the guides written in this very forum, or
here (one I wrote for the good folks at OCR a couple years ago) to get it installed and running.
If DOSBox gives you trouble once everything's installed, you can ask here and one of us will try and help you out.