Trying to Reinstall

[BlueSoup]

Well, Sara hit the nail on the head.  It was indeed a copy-protection issue.  TS2 loads up and plays just fine now, after uninstalling Daemon Tools (a legal program).  Thanks for pointing me in that direction.  I was using a hider just in case that had anything to do with it, but apparently the hider didn't work.

Edit:  I don't know if this was the cause of the original file corruption thing though.  Oh well.

[kacidama]

Thanks Sara - I think that is the answer.   

[SaraMK]

If I'm right, then I really hate being right about stuff like this. What business do they have telling us what programs we can and can't have installed on our computers?! Unreal.

[liegenschonheit]

The hider makes your other drives appear invisible to the game, so that a mounted cd will work instead of a physical one. Otherwise for OFB the disk can only be placed in your default drive in order to work. Perhaps your hider was screwing up the install process by hiding your real CD drive during the process.

Or something. Daemon tools works fine for me, and I've had it installed during both installations of the sims.

[BlueSoup]

Well, I tried to install multiple times (seriously, I can rattle off my serial number by freakin' heart!).  All those times I had Daemon Tools installed, but I only tried to hide it once or twice.  Nothing worked.  It wasn't until I removed it completely that the game would play.

[Ambular]

Well I'm awfully sorry it caused you so many headaches, hon, but I'm so glad you finally got it working!

[Ness]

Must be a huge relief to have finally figured out the source of your frustration, Blue.  Enjoy playing for a while!