Dolphin Emulator help

So, I've been on a nostalgic streak, and decided to play Kirby Air Ride again. I've previously used Dolphin 2.0 to re-live TLOZ wind waker with great success. But after I got the Kirby Air Ride .gcm from emuparadise, I load it up, with opengl, direct 3d9, or 3d11, it looks fine an all, but the yellow text at the top never goes away, the fps is stuck on 0, and the screen stays forever black. With the exact same settings, I start up wind waker, and it works fine. I've tried it on Dolphin 3.5-367 (the most recent version) and 3.5 with no luck

I'm fairly inexperienced with emulators, and most of the settings and stuff are way beyond my understanding, so it's all on default.

My computer specs:

Intel i5 2410m @2.3 Ghz

Nvidia 4200m

4 GB ram (2.92 available)

Dell latitude E5620 win 7 32bit

EDIT: I already own the games for gamecube, so I didn't really feel my dl's were 'illegal'

EDIT2: I got it working by using the 'proper' version listed on emuparadise (no idea what 'proper' means though) and I can run it at 40 fps just fine, except for the audio, it's really.. twitchy, laggy, clicky, just bad. I've tried using V-sync, that kinda fixed it, but dropped the game to about half-speed.

EDIT3: fixed edit2's problem by using the 3.5 version, not the 3.5-367. but now it just crashes every 5 minutes...