Vista - AoE3 issue

So I've installed AoE3 vanilla on my vista system. The install was fine, and all that. Though I ran into some problems when I started the game. It started and all that though I can't create any home cities for some reason. At first I had some troubles with AoE3 being installed on my C: drive which didn't allow the "log-sumth" file to be created. So I reinstalled it on my other drive and that worked like a charm.

Though the problem remained, I can't create home cities for some reason. Or well I can create them since if I try to create one with the same name it seems to know that there is one with that name for some reason. Though when I push the "create-button" it freezes for a while and then I come to the menu where you can fix your decks and all that though in that menu all I can do is click "create new home city". It's currently uninstalled on my comp since I raged some last night... Though I wanna be able to play it so any help concerning this would be really appriciated.

/Anderzzon