Star Wars: Empire At War running with image

[cptpooface]

I just mounted the image with DT and ran SecuRom using the sweaw in game data. That worked for me twice then I started getting the "original disc could not be found or authenticated" message. I didn't patch the game or anything, it worked earlier today but tonight it just stopped working. I searched the forums and this seemed to happen to a lot of people. Any ideas on why this happens? I don't think it could be the image because it wouldn't have worked at all if it was a bad image. I tried it ten times and figured if it was going to work it would work one of those times, but it didn't. Can the program somehow get "smarter" and figure out there is no disc? I guess I'm back to using the original disc until someone figures this out.

[novak2k4]

Thanks for image file, works good. the one i made didn't
I just did the following steps
Install game
Install patch 1.2
Install Daemon Tools 4.03
Unpack Sweat_mini_image to starwars empire at war\gamedata folder
Mount the image with Daemon tools and turn on all emulation selections
If game starts, close it
Install Curerom 1.31
Start Curerom, and input this:
Options, third party virtual, select Daemon tools and exe file
Application, select SWEAW file in gamedata folder. click next
Image mounting software, select I do not want to use any virtual. click next
make shortcut name {sweaw} and click next
save and finish
With image mounted via Daemon, run sweaw shortcut made from Curerom to play
started and closed the game 5 times, then played a few skirmishes and no probs