Warcraft 3 patching help!

[Holygiant]

This is the most frustrating problem i have ever had in my life :banghead:

For maybe 2 days now, I've been trying to get these discs I had of Rain of Chaos/Frozen Throne to work. These discs are scratched and chipped, so they freeze mid-download. They were old discs.

So I bought a THIRD battle chest. This is a newer edition of it, with cool installing screens and such. I can download RoC fine. When I try to patch it for bnet, it downloads and I restart. Once I restart, it will give me this message:

ERROR: C:\Program Files (x86)\Warcraft III\war3x.mpq

It tells me to contact Blizzard but that appears very difficult to do. I have reinstalled RoC about 5 times and it's still giving me this crap.

On a side note, The Frozen Throne refuses to cooperate. It seems to think I have already installed it, as it has 'Play Frozen Throne' at the top button. When I click this it will run RoC.

I am in desperate need of help! Going crazy trying to figures this out. I will thank you very very much to whoever can fix my problem!

 

[NightShade]

I though that if you downloaded from b.net it already had all the patches.

it also means that you could have used you old cd keys...

 

[Holygiant]

For one, I know I didn't use old CD keys. They're pasted onto the box. For another, you need the patches to run bnet, but if you click the bnet button it will start downloading the patches. I have tried downloading it from there and downloading it from the site and they pop up with the error.

 

[NightShade]

you can use the old cd keys (or the new ones, or both) by going to battle.net (via your browser) and entering them into your account. then you can download the game from b.net whenever you want.

I thought that they came pre-patched for you to cause less trouble but I could be wrong.

 

[Holygiant]

I have tried that. Doesn't help.