Unreal2 The Awakening How? Please Help

[monokos]

I bought Unreal2 monday 12th May ( Great Game ). I returned home on Tuesday evening to find my Flat Broken into. The Bast**ds Stole all my PC games as well as my Laptop. Unreal2 is installed on my Desktop PC but the CD that runs the game was in it's case. I have downloaded the No CD exe file but when I drop the patch over the Unreal exe I get the message to load the Play CD into my CD Drive. Am I doing something wrong or does the patch only work with the CD in the Drive. Sorry to sound dumb but I'm new to all this. Please Help. Thank you.