chrosniakjb ; Let me first assure you that I for one , did not doubt you had purchased a copy , and deduced that from your first ' report ' telling us you bought it at Best Buy ( Elementary , and no reason to assume untrue ! I couldn't possibly think so you did , and wouldn't cast aspersions on you if I did , without any good evidence to doubt you . LOL ).
I have heard of the Starforce CD key quite a few times , and before you do drastic unnecessary things like buying a new drive and so on , you can try this .
Sometimes the code fails , Starforce has a good support service , and I am sure they will solve that .
It's something like " support@star-force.com "
Make sure you use the hyphen , or just google it if I am wrong .
let me know if that helps ,,,or when they do !