I'm sorry if this is off topic - but I think you have bigger problems here. The patch update to 1.04 should work...period. If it doesn't your game install is messed up...period. I see in another thread that you have already re-installed the game several times. That leads me to believe that the game has not been completely unistalled and you should seek further tech support. Often, game unistalls do not completely erase all game data and registry entries in windows and therefore after you re-install you still have the same problems.
My suggestion would be to post this isse on the games tech support forums - you should probably run a search as well as I imagine you are not the only one with this problem. Follow
this link for the user self help support forum and
this link for the official Atari support page.
Again - I am not trying to give you a hard time - but if I was having this problem that is what I would do. The answer is to fix the problem with the game not playing with 1.04. It does not make any sense to "settle" for your current situation - this is a software issue and it can be fixed.
