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No, I moved from XP Pro 32 to Win7 Ultimate 64 so the archive approach won't work. I also tried the registration link and fed it the 3 possible email addresses that I could have possibly registered it under and tried to send them to the one I know I registered Vanilla and Entrenchment under and it blew up each time. I'll send a mail off to Stardock and see what they say.

I'd agree that this game has an awful Online component. I'm a network engineer by trade and of all the online gaming systems, this is the ONLY one I've not been able to make work. No issues with Battle.net, Firaxis' Online Lobby, EA's ugly stepchild, Steam, Relic Online, et al. I and one of my of my friends purchased this game and neither of us can host. I have an enterprise grade firewall (a Cisco PIX) at home and do not enable the SP2 firewall, while he has a D-Link NAT r