The World of Avlis

grrrr, bought mine with no CD key, called the store, said they would happly give me one grrrrr

I can't stress this enough, make sure you check for the CD key, some stores i'm sure won't be so easy to deal with.

Hmm, all the ones I shop at near me have been opening them (In full view of the customer) before they hand them to the customer to make sure it has a CD-Key.
Then again, some of them did the same thing with any Console they sell, to make sure all the bits are there.

Then again, I don't tend to shop at impersonal places like Wal-Mart...

Just checking, but you know it was not in the manual like the installation said it was...but on a piece of paper in the box right? Just making sure...