Age of Empires (All Empire Games on One DVD)

[musicman5150]

Can anyone tell me what the file 00002.tmp on disk one of AOE3 is for? I was trying to copy the files over to my hard drive to burn to a DVD but for some reason that one file (which is only like 46kb) keeps giving me an error saying the disk can't be read. All the other files copy just fine but that one will not copy. I've tried dragging and dropping, copying and pasting and nothing. Any ideas on what this file does, why it won't copy and if it's even necessary? Please help!! Sorry I see this had already been asked... I'm an idiot. Has anyone found out anything more about this?

[Grumpy]

Like I have said before "these files are part of the 'smarte' protection."
You can still do the conversion without that file, it is not needed as you will be using a NoCD crack to actually play.

[musicman5150]

Ok... I moved everything onto my harddrive and did a test from there. Everything loaded just fine and I was able to patch, crack and play. So I figured it would burn just fine. I used Nero to burn and it said it finished successfully but when I uninstalled the original install to test the DVD install it won't work. It gets to a point in the install from the DVD where it says it can't read a file. I'm completely puzzled as to why it loaded fine from the hard drive but not from the burned DVD. Any thoughts on this? One thing I didn't do was unzip all of the disk 1, disk 2 and disk 3 compressed files. I noticed that the crack method on GCW says to just burn these onto the DVD as is with their installer crack in place. Does it work better to unzip all of these and burn them that way or does that screw things up?