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[JustAGuy]

Glad to hear you're out of the hospital and catheter-less. My cousin was in a train vs minivan accident a number of years back and the resulting damage to his bladder resulted in him having to have a catheter put in. He survived the accident and he's fine these days, but I do understand and know what it's like.

When you're feeling up to it, try and just copy the already installed WoW beta files to your machine. It just might work without any kind of proper installation routine. I bet the thing won't update properly in the future, but it'd run.

If you copy it and it runs ok, then good, problem solved. But, if it complains about this or that, there are a few registry entries for WoW you might want to enter. They exist in three directories I can see (one might be depreciated):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\World of Warcraft

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\WoW (Probably depreciated)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Word of Warcraft

The current user keys have subdirectories called "Client", and contained in them is user's configuration data, like the last account used and which realm the user was last on. Nothing the program can't regenerate.

The local mcahine key has no subdirectories. This one has some entries that will most likely be pertient to future patches, and/or running the game.

The three entries are:
GamePath
InstallPath
UninstallPath

All three are of type "String" (REG_SZ in the registry). GamePath and InstallPath are obvious -- it's where you installed the program (for me GamePath is C:\Games\World of Warcraft\WoW.exe and and InstallPath is the same, except no WoW.exe at the end). UninstallPath, on the other hand, is where the uninstaller is located. In my case, it was C:\Program Files\Common Files\Blizzard Entertainment\World of Warcraft\Uninstall.exe. You will probably want to copy that file over as well.

I suggest you copy the installed WoW files to the new machine, create the Local Machine key in your registry, and giver a run. If that doesn't work, well, I could probably come up with something else...

As for the puny pony -- we'll get you one soon enough.