I was starting to feel like I was all alone BStard. I've been very vocal under the name Arutnev275885 on Atari's official boards about this -
http://www.ataricommunity.com/forums...play.php?f=433 - but they are really taking their time.
I've done searches on cracking, I've descrambled the exe, installed numerous programs that are designed to counter this securom v7 copy protection. Nothing works. If it doesn't just pop up the "wrong cd" message, another shows up with something like "the security module could not be loaded".
I've also sent tech support emails to Atari and Atari Australia highlighting the problem. Not being able to install that patch rules out multiplayer and the mod tools, which leaves nothing of interest left to me.
It's bad enough as it is that we have to wait two months on top of everyone else and pay 50% more just to get our games, but this is just insulting. In a way it's my fault though, I should have just stopped buying Atari games long ago... only, you can't help but think "maybe it'll be different this time".