I had ordered the digital download + the Shipped CD. When the CD came, I unistalled the digital download version and installed from the CD and everything seems to work. Apparantly, the problem was with the download version. Thought you may like to know.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: adamandevil<br/>
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Absolutely nothing thus far has worked. So I tried the repair option from Windows XP Setup (not recovery console, this is when you're about to format the drive and it asks you if you want to repair the volume), and now the game works.<br ...