with the pots is fine. are you having a problem getting the program to run, or does it run but just not keep the pots full of soil and water?
if the program is running but not filling pots like it should, i think it may be because the program was obtained from gamemill but i am not certain.
each vendor can choose their own form of copy protection when they sell the program. i have tested my utilities with the version of plant tycoon from LDW and from BFG and have adapted it to work with both. but to get it to work with every vendor's copy protection i would have to purchase it from every vendor