It wasn't a bad install because it had been working fine up to that point, but I went ahead and reinstalled everything and it was of course fixed. I think SOMETHING must have happend to screw it up but it doesn't matter anymore.
(And I do NOT have a hacked version! I like to play online!!)
I am in the process of making a mod for zero hour, and it was going well for a while, but now for some dumb reason, all of the players (not the AIs) stuff explodes after around 30 secs to 1 min. what did I do!?!?!?!