My opinion is that these days CloneCD is a load of rubbish, back in the days of version 2 yeah it could perform relgious miracles...get rid of that - or just don't use it expecting it to produce good backups of modern protections...
Basically...
Instead of CloneCD, use Alcohol 120% available at
http://www.alcohol-soft.com they've got a trial there.
Then download the latest Daemon Tools - 4.03 I think, at
http://www.daemon-tools.cc
I'd not sure what protection is on the new sims addon, but I'm guessing its prolly Safedisk 4.6.
In which case, go into alcohol and click "Image making wizard". choose the "Safedisc2\3" profile.
And follow the obvious instructions in the program.
Mount the image you make in Daemon-tools 4.03
You may or may not need an antiblacklisting program, if you do post back