One suggestion is to reinstall the game. When you uninstall, your save games are not removed. Sometimes while fighting Frost Giants, the game crashes. When I create a party, and then change the order of the party, when I change areas, the former arrangement comes back. By default, the DirectX installation will turn on hardware acceleration on your sound card, usually to it's maximum setting.
Some machines have problems with that.
No, this has been fixed and is available in the official patch coming in the second week of July 2000. The incorrect button has no effect on gameplay, and will correct itself after entering other menus. This feature is available in v1.06. All magic users can use and write divination based spells up to the 4th level. I am victorious in the last battle, but the game sits there and never plays an endgame movie, and I may be able to pick up an invisible item.