[tbaher]

I believe the general message was that some group called ... something like "WEETAM" or whatever made a warez release of the game on CLONECD, this release made a bad copy of this file, but then they released a fix.. which was esentially a repacement for this exact file. I ran across this replacement file (which I thought was a NOCD Crack) and deleted it.

Since this came up multiple times, I made me do some research
I discovered that there were 2 warez releases, one by WEETAM or whatever, didnt include the crack and was labeled "CloneCD".
Then reloaded came out with another release (which has the fixed exe that exists in GCW) and it didn't have that issue, so no fix was necessary.

The message is and i'm being judgemental about this: If this file is corrupt, then you have the warez CloneCD version by WEETAN (or whatever)

This is almost identical to the issue of "AI DISABLED" in half life 2..

I have said this before and I say it again.

See, if Ubisoft somehow released a bad batch of CDs enough that an issue exists for actual users, there's be a patch by the developer, not a fix by a warez group.