Uplink "Crash" (???)

[RickNovile]

(I use Windows XP and this is on Steam)
I got Uplink as part of the Introversion Bundle on Steam, and everytime I try to play it it simply starts up like any other steam game (A little window say "Loading [Name of Game]" and my status changes to "Rick Novile is now playing [Name of Game]" but within about 2 seconds, it goes back to saying "Rick Novile is Online" and nothing pops up for the game.

[Rkiver]

Go into your steamapps folder, find Uplink in there and start the game from the .exe file.

[RickNovile]

Go into your steamapps folder, find Uplink in there and start the game from the .exe file.

Now it pops up with the message: "This Application has failed to start because Steam.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem"
???

[EDIT] I looked around and found the tip about changing the extension of one of the things from .dll.bak to .dll. This worked and I successfully launched the game twice. However, a third try rendered the same results as the original post says

[NeatNit]

Try closing Steam completely, removing clientregistry.blob from the Steam folder and launching the Steam.exe again. It will take some time to rebuild the file but this fixes most problems.