PATCH.ACE and PATCH.BAT (SIMS)

[sjrrath]

I am trying to make a back up of the game The Sims, so my kids won't destroy our CD. It told me to create a temp directory named TempDir:C:\TEMP\CD, but my computer will not let me name anything that has slashes in it. I also need to know where and how to extract PATCH.ACE from and also where and how do I execute PATCH.BAT from? I would appreciate any help you can provide.