Ok, let me get this right. You don't actually own the game. It's your mates. Not only that but you also can't get it to work. On top of that, you have a crack which is supposed to let you play the game without the crack.
And to top it off, you come to SI's forum and ask for help to get it to work??? Have you lost your mind? It's like some guy mugging you, only to return two days later to ask for the pin number on your card.
Let me go through this slowly. And we'll read through the nice bold sentence at the top of the Editors Hideaway shall we?
ANY USERS REQUESTING A NO-CD CRACK OR ADMITTING TO USING ONE WILL BE BANNED!
To put it bluntly, you just admitted to using a crack. Do us all a favour and buy a copy of the game for gods sake. These guys drip blood and sweat to get this game out to the market and people like you steal it by using these cracks. It's people like you that give me second thoughts about going into software engineering.
And about the sweat thing... My manual really does smell like some large unclean bloke has rubbed it under his armpits.