Red Alert 2 Online w/ noCD Crack, How To?

[Drako]

I have a successful RA2 1.004 noCD crack. Works fine. When I try to get online, it wants to update my version. Seemingly, it peeks into my game.exe file and sees that it no longer contains the CD check, and thus declines to initiate the update. Anyone know how to get around this? Tanks. Drako