Gold unfortunately has proven resistant to BtS installs - are you familiar with registry edits? if so could you post what firaxis entries are there in your windows registry? maybe oine can figure something out...
alright, I'll do anything to try and get this to work. Here goes:
In Hkey_Classes_Root
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Civ4Replay
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Civ4SavedGame
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Civ4SavedGame\ShellEx
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Civ4SavedGame\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.Civ4WorldBuilderSave
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CivWarlordsReplay
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CivWarlordsSave
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CivWarlordsSave\ShellEx
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CivWarlordsSave\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.CivWarlordsWBSave
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4\1.09
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Gold
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4 Gold\1.72
That last bit looks like it actually has an obsolete patch written into it. Is there any way I can change that value to read 1.74? Would deleting it help?