Well... let me take a shot at this... going to have to ask more questions, becasue some of what you had happened definately shouldn't have happened.
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Originally posted by And One
Thanks for the reply Henry....
System is a Win XP SP1 PC 768M of Memory running P4 1.2 Ghz laptop...
40 Gigs free space available of the C: drive, where windows and the game are installed. Custom League with 32 teams and fictional players. League is setup as career. ok so far....
Played first seasons was able play through whole year.... Went to the second year, program guided me through Coaching Signing Period, Free-Agent signing period, and Amateur draft.. This allows restocking of team....Completed second season... Calendar shows 1/26... Not guide available... something wrong here, the Free Agent period sould have come up I sim from 1-26 to 4-1 (season start). although I could go in and sign coaches and FA picks, I expected the game to provide the option to go through the signing period... Yes, it should have acted like previous seasons This did not occur, meaning that my team has drastic wholes in the line-up... The computer managed teams on 4-1-2002 sign all the better players according to the transaction history. I assumed this was because they were short handed also... My team now does not have sufficient players to cover all positions. No amateur draft meaning I have a defective database devoid of a year of players.
My guess would be one of your "lockups" somehow corrupted the database
Any "PC" problem, should not cause all that work to be lost...
Screen saver issue.... Took a while for me to figure out then anytime my screensaver comes on, the game is going to freeze. Forcing me to 'Terminate' program and restart the program.
This is a PC problem, I should know better then to run a screen saver when playing a game. 
Patch is delivered so I re-install game on PC... You may have made a mistake here... the patch was simply a replacement for the ootp5.exe file ... you didn't have to reinstall the game, which is probably what cancelled the licenses. Cal ViTech (number is in Troubleshooting area of board) and explain what happened. they will reissue the licensesDid not think to retrieve License while I was re-installing and downloading patch.. Laptop does not have access to Internet so I select off line license install.. Follow instructions moving files between different PCs.. Game says I have successfully installed game... I start game and it works fine.. Shut down PC, and restart..... Game asks me to purchase or license.. Although I had played the game less the a couple of hours ago.... I go through re-license process and I'm out of license... again I think it's becasue you re-installed instead of simply copying the new file into the ootp5 directory
I've owned the software for 7 days... Been able to play 3 days.. Restarted twice and I fear a third time is on the horizon... And I cannot use a product which I have paid for.
I'm glad you haven't had any PC problems... But unfortunately I have not been as fortunate...
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I hope this gives you a direction to solve your problems
Henry