Since I have a new hard drive, I decided to update my Norton Internet Security and get new updates...Suddenly I saw that I could disable my personal firewall...(statfreak, I think told me this was the problem causing me not to be able to relicense online)...I did this...and OUILA (whatever that means...maybe I should have used EUREKA (I think this means something like "I Found it")...and everything worked perfectly...I now have my "fix" and will not go to pieces and fall apart. I HAVE MY GAME BACK.
Why didn't Viatech just tell me to disable my Norton firewall? That would have saved me much time and about 5 long distance calls.
In fact for the last two hours they don't answer their phone. I must have gotten very lucky with the first phone call.
Thanks, statfreak...and all the other great guys on this forum who take the time to help the ones who need a lot of it.