Vista - HELP! Lord of the Rings BFME 2 Vista Online issues

help me please! I have Vista Home premium and upon my first attempt to install the game i went thru the whole thing and it made me register. no problem. Then i was able to make heros and when i went to go online with it, it said to download updates...it then proceeded run for about an hour and kept telling me it would take more and more time. So i stopped it, thinking i could go back to it later. Next time i tried, it says "must have addministrative permission to download patch" so i tried again same thing. So i uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Now it kept freezing up on me and i had to ctrl alt delete to get out. So finally it lets me try again and it tells me the same error message. So i go to the game site and look at other peoples suggestions. I change my compatibility to XP and NOW I cant get into the game...it tells me to put the correct disc in...but its disc 1, assumingly the one i would run it off of. So any help at this point would be great.

here is my system info Operating System: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000)
BIOS: PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.1
Processor: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 (2 CPUs), ~1.6GHz
Memory: 958MB RAM
Page File: 910MB used, 1262MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
DxDiag Version: 6.00.6000.16386 32bit Unicode
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce Go 6150
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Display Memory: 285 MB
Dedicated Memory: 61 MB
Shared Memory: 223 MB
Current Mode: 1280 x 800 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor
Driver Name: nvd3dum.dll
Driver Version: 7.15.0010.9729 (English)
DDI Version: 9Ex
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Driver Date/Size: 11/18/2006 08:07:00, 3055616 bytes
WHQL Logo'd: Yes

With every game there is bound to be a few patches. You should of left it go though all the updates instead of being impatient.

Anyway...so now you switched it to XP mode but it's not working.

Solution to me sounds simple.

Uninstall it completely and re-install.

When reinstalling, instead of letting the CD auto-play. Find the installation exe file on the CD and right click-it and select install as administrator.

LET it go through the patches even if it takes a whole day.

I tried that, didnt work, got it to open, but when i go to the online option it still tells me that "You must have administrative rights to install a patch" i really want to make this work...i deleted my cookies and even disabled my windows firewall. HELP!

You're looking at this the wrong way. The patching system is fine. All you need to do is find the patch launcher and set that to run as administrator (Right-Click->Properties->Compatibility->Run this program as an administrator) If that doesn't work, temporarily disable UAC and try again

hey can someone help me i tryed to instal lord of the rings 2 battle for middle earth... but when i install it just stand on 0% everytime becouse it can't install the first thing there have to be installed some one mail me on rtk@ofir.dk

So has anyone fixed the internet problem? I have the same problem with most of the games I install on Vista only a few work like Starcraft and Warcraft 3 So ya anyone fixed it?