I have solved the problem, not thanks to 1C nor Atari. To properly launch setup.exe, don't just double-click on it, but right-click, choose "Run As", then in the window that opens choose "Administrator". Never mind that you don't have a password for it, nor that in XP you don't even have a user named "Administrator" in your users list at launch, just do it and after the chime the setup window should appear. It installed fine on my machine, the serial was accepted, and the game started fine.
Last bit not least, a big "boooh" to the incompetent gits who try to emulate Vista's UAC in XP.
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