Actually, I amazingly found the solution, but I'm keeping this up just in case anyone else has this problem, and does a search in the forum. If you're running it in XP, but instead have it set to "run as 98", change it to run as XP, it works! YEAHO! (note, I highly doubt this is just a way for unregistered people to use their illegal copies, but just for people with working serial numbers that work, but they don't. Never mind)