well, it's hard to say if they are all having problems....
The next course of action (depending on where you live)
would be to buy a hard copy from eBay. there's a lot of copies floating around and chances are it's a used copy that the owner just got bored of...
(quick prayer they NEVER find out what ZeeWolf is doing, so our hard-times SUBSIM members have a steady supply of used TvsT copies
)