Follow up to my tech issue .... I decided after hours of trying to figure this out to just reinstall the game. At first I tried to use my saved games back up file ... but I hadn't backed those up since mid June, so it was peeps that had already passed .. so I lost a lot of my progress. I deleted all my backups, image backups and downloaded the free trial again from the LDW website. Since I had deleted everything connected to my old games, I started a new family. It seems to be working for now without getting the errors. Will the trial expire after a certain amount of time? I have been running it for almost 2 hours now and it hasn't. I have saved my key # to unlock the game .... will I need to use it or will this game not even expire? I hope that made sense!