Strange deal here. I installed Ghost 14 on a fully patch XP Pro system (AMD based, 32-bit). Ghost installs fine, but after rebooting, logging in, and running a few minutes, it just hangs up, and reboot required again. If I reboot again and let it sit without logging in, it hangs. It's as though it eventually loads something it doesn't like well into the boot process. From boot start-up to hang is around 4 minutes each time.
I've found that if I boot in SAFE MODE, I can rename the Ghost folder name in Programs, and can then reboot and run successfully. Attempts to run LiveUpdate caused an apparently new version of Ghost to download and install, but same "freeze" problem after that reboot.
It appears that some part of the Ghost program is getting loaded during the boot process and causes the hang, but it all happens before I can get-in and look at running processes, etc. I’m open to ideas about how to track down the offending module, and a way to fix the issue of course. Sorry -- I wish I could be more definitive.