on a different forum, somebody just suggested to me this:

"Did you ever have the demo installed? This sounds like the limits on the demo. I would suggest uninstall the demo, killing all the files ... then reinstalling the game.

Just a guess here."

my response:

i DID have the demo installed, but i alreayd uninstalled it...hmmm your theory though is insteresting...

does the demo install to the same folder as DD?

because if so, then when i reinstalled the game once already i deleted the DD folder before installing again...

so if that IS the problem, it would have to be a registry entry.

hmmm

so what do you think raze? is he on to something?