this is my first time using a crack...what do i do with the file, exactly?
 

this is my first time using a CD crack...i am trying to backup the sims games and i have downloaded the .rar files for them and i have CloneCD...i just do not know what to do with the file...can anyone help?

Use WinRAR to open the file and extract the crack. The crack is an executable, you just look for the executable with the same name in the game directory and overwrite it with the cracked version. That's all.

so when i burn the backup cd do i burn every file that is on the original cd and then just replace the real file with the crack?

Jbunny, read THIS.