I'm probably one of a few using windows 2000 here but for anyone who is interested I discovered that using Microsoft’s rollup package to install the 30 some critical updates released after service pack 4 causes the copy protection to fail loading with VSK3. I would guess this might be an issue with other games with the same copy protection. The fix is to just uninstall the rollup package and use the updates individually.
More info (http://p124.news.scd.yahoo.com/s/zd/200 ... _zd/156494)
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