I looked through the sticky, none of it addresses my specific concern.

I purchased Dark Avatar from a retail outlet and installed both the original game as well as DA on my newly installed system (I'm using Vista, in case it matters).

I already owned an electronic copy of GalCiv II through Stardock, but I wanted to own the media on disc and since it came with DA, this seemed like a good opportunity.

After installing the product, I see in the read me file I'm to use Stardock to update my games. I went to Stardock and put in my e-mail/password, and it was indeed able to detect I had an installed and updateable copy of GalCiv II DL on the system, but next to Dark Avatar all it says is "purchase" I right-clicked and tried to put the SN from the disc case in, but it says it's not a valid key (I was able to install with this key with no problems). I tried "activate w/logging" but it says I have this product registered on another account and I should contact Stardock to merge the accounts. I only have one account!

Now, I forgot about it for a few days, as DA doesn't run very well on my system anyway and I'm just waiting for something to get fixed. This morning, however, I noticed the status changed from "purchase" to "update" and there seems to be an update. Could this fix some of the vista issues? I can't find out, it's just bringing me to a product page when I click on "install"

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Scott