It keeps saying joustick not present or plugged in :( i jave a cheap logitech joystick and i have a saitek x52 pro. I wanna play head to head with my girlfriend like i used to with my dad when i was a kid please help!

Hi if you ever read this, sorry for the late reply, but I'm not sure it is possible with joysticks with several axis (thottle, rudder, etc.), I think you need joysticks with just two axis.
Only thing you can try is by editing the Dosbox%.conf file with notepad and change joysticktype=auto to joysticktype=2axis, but I'm not sure this will work.