empire earth update problem (not crack problem)

[hopper_d]

I'm having problems installing the 1.4 us patch to the game. When I first got the game (two weeks ago) I lost the cd, so I had to use one of the megagames crack to play the v1 game. I am trying to install the patch from both sierra and other mirrors. I have been able to DL both the ee_1000-1040_ende.exe and ee_1000-1040_en.exe and to extract them to get the setup. It runs the setup then says it can't update due to file size mis-match. The problem is I don't have the cd anymore so I can't try to see if it would update the original file. Even if I had the original file I had errors autoupdating earlier so I don't think it would have worked. Anyhow is 1.4 a significant patch? Is there anyone that had the same updating problem that was able to fix it?