<t> What is Warez? <br/>
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My CD is apparently a pirated one from ebay. It was supposed to be a legitimate purchase (on my end) of a used CD and I have obviously been had. It looks nothing like the CD above. I will notify ebay about this person/company/whatever. <br/>
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Thank you - I found my serial code in my registry, but the 1.040 patch doesn't recognize it as a valid serial code. Any ideas on what I can do?

This was helpful, anything further I would sure appreciate.

<t> Um...no I typed it exactly as it appeared on the sleeves - only one hyphen in the whole thing. And ..um... security doesn't make a bit of difference when the number doesn't work. I typed it that way to see if anyone recognized that as the general format of the serial code. <br/>
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<t> Maybe I'm an idiot, but I am trying to update my version 1.005 CD and when I enter what I'm guessing is the serial # (off the CD sleeve) I keep getting told that it is invalid. Is there a way around this, or am I typing in the wrong number? The # I'm trying to input is "TY Y xxxxxx xxx-xxx" Is ...