Up and running. THANKS to Philippe (Pocus) and all of his time and patience.
Thought I'd update the thread and let everyone know.
Now off to fight a war...

Emailed serial number and Thank You!

Did what you showed above with following results: Game installed Put it as mentioned in a directory under c: drive and not in program files dir. Now a pop-up appears asking for the serial number. If this is the serial number( inside cd case on a label called PC AM Civil War Reg Code) Six sets of num...

I don't believe anit-virus software can affect installing files from a cd.
It doesn't with any other software installation.
Guess I'll just stop payment to amazon and let them figure out what they
want to do with this software and package.

configuration tool won't open.
I can't tell if the game even completely installed.
Not very impressed with this software.

Tried to install the game I just received for my birthday. It gets to the end of the install process and just sits there. Small box doesn't do anything just says finishing installation but it never does. Verified it's not doing anything. Tried starting the game figuring it did install and the auto-i...