Hey! I seem to be having trouble getting Dark Injections to work.
Since my CD copies of

,

and

no longer seem to work on my computer, I purchased all three for Christmas on Steam and immediately tried to reinstall

and

. Immediately, the game didn't work properly; I could launch

+

,

+

, or

alone, but not all at at once. Only

and

would show up across all versions.
After wrestling with it over Boxing Day night and a lot of this morning; uninstalling the game, its expansions and the mod in order; and repeatedly telling Steam to verify the game cache to no avail; I found out the old files from when I was able to play the game via CD sitting around in the Electronic Arts folder in Program Files (x86). This was not only interfering with the Steam game's files, but also where the installer was sending the files for

. Once I moved the Data and DataEP1 files and other such things over from the Disc install to the Steam install and deleted everything else, I found I could get the 2012 version of the mod to run, though since most of the parts were invisible and the camera was off-center, I deleted them and went with the newest

install. Now, everything is in the game when launched from the entry for

in my Steam library, and the newest version of the mod changes the UI as intended, but the game crashes shortly after startup! It's the closest I've gotten so far, but certainly not what I wanted.
After scouring the internet, I can't even begin to imagine what I need to do to fix this. I have the newest version of the SporeAPI, which, of course, is what I used to install the mod.