[RedFury]

I just sent a detailed message to EA about this very issue. Interestingly, it is not in their FAQ's ( at least not directly related to this specific error ). Hopefully they will reply with a real answer.

I'm sitting on a freshly formatted, installed and updated WinXP system that ran it the first time I installed the game. Now, no matter which way I try, it will not reinstall, and I get the same error message.

The problem is, I have 2 copies of the game, they both do the same thing. I've copied the files to the HDD per the FAQ and get the exact same error from a HDD install.

You go figure THAT one out EA's support is pretty much garbage IMHO.

My latest queary into this install issue was to kill all background services listed under my user name in the task manager.

This is what I get everytime.