Dex: actually I am doing my level best to get it working right now.
Coelocanth: However, I didn't do anything to mine and just went ahead and installed the Co8 patch and had no issues. Hope you get it running.
Ditto. And as has been said and resaid, don't put the game in the default program directory. Pick something easy to find like C://games.
I had virtually no bugs (other than the web spell and wishing I'd waited for the 6.0.x mod pack). The ToEE engine really was quite nice after debugging. The graphics still look pretty tight too