[Lame-dev] Using lame

[graham l. <gra...@ya...>]

You don't have a User Forum, so this seems the most appropriate place to ask my question.
 
I cannot run Lame.exe on my system (xp pro + sp3).  I get the message
 
The system cannot execute the specified program.

 
googling this brought a bunch of pages that I frankly do not understand, but apparently my system lacks something that lame needs in order to run.  Is there a handy list of such modules available?
 
Thank you.