V1.3 patch - Problems installing patch

"Sins of a solar Empire not found"

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I'm having some trouble installing the newest patch for Sins. I deleted SD Central because I thought I could always download the patch from here and install it from there, else I would have used that for installing the patch.
I just downloaded the patch, used the patch file on my desk and then I got this message

"The path registry value at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\sins appears to be blank.
Please make sure you have the game installed.
This update installation will now exit"

I know I have it installed and I have a valid copy of Sins, so my question is, why won't it install? I'm currently running on Vista *shrugs*
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
If you run regedit from the start menu run box and browse to that location in the registry, is there anything there?
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Have you changed the .exe name for Sins Application?

I got the same thing as you, because I changed the name of the of the .exe so you have to change it back to Sins of a Solar Empire.exe then run the patch again.

Worked for me  :p 
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
I'm having the same problem. Can anyone who does have the registry key look it up and see what needs to be in the key if we want to just add it in ourselves with regedit? ie a string, binary, DWORD, etc. and what needs to be in it? I'm guessing its just a string leading to the sins.exe but I can't figure out what the label should be.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Here's the entire "sins" key.

You can copy and paste the following into a .reg file to import it into your registry, but make sure the path is right for your installation.

Code: xml
  2. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  4. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\sins]
  5. "Store"="$REGISTRATION[code="xml"]
  6. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
  8. [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Stardock\Drengin.net\sins]
  9. "Store"="$REGISTRATION$"
  10. "Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Stardock Games\\Sins of a Solar Empire"
  11. "Exe"="Sins of a Solar Empire.exe"
  12. "Version"="1.03"
  13. "Updated"="03/13/2008 10:34:12"
  14. "Type"="production"
  15. "XMLUpdate"="1"
quot;
"Path"="C:\\Program Files\\Stardock Games\\Sins of a Solar Empire"
"Exe"="Sins of a Solar Empire.exe"
"Version"="1.03"
"Updated"="03/13/2008 10:34:12"
"Type"="production"
"XMLUpdate"="1"
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