thank you jolrei and zazazu.  that's what i was thinking too, but y'all clearly know more about this stuff than i do, so it's nice to have the reassurance before i begin. 

pieridae

hi all!  thanks for the thread.  I just got bon Voyage and just heard about this SecureRom thing.  Grrr.

 I was reading at the Tom's hardware link that the offending game should be uninstalled before attempting to remove securom, but here some say no, you don't have to uninstall.  Can someone who REALLY understands computers please tell me which it is?