Base Game Patch Problems

[dragonfly]

I just did a total uninstall as I want to start from scratch. But now I'm having a problem with the base game patch. I can install the base game fine. I even can run it, but when I go to install the patch it gets almost done then says error with update, or something like that. I've tried after that to install Uni, and it installs fine, up until "It will now check for updates, please insert the sims 2 game disk, I insert it, and it tries to patch it again, and again I get the error..

I uninstalled now 5 times tonight trying to get it to work and it keeps saying the same thing. I have checked in my regedit, and everything is uninstalled.

Could someone please help me. 

[notovny]

Have you tried skipping the base game patch until after you've installed University?  Of the expansions I've installed, I recall University to be by far the most tempermental, and my first University Installation was the only time I've ever been forced to fully uninstall when adding an epansion.