I think this might be part of the issue? IE won’t load up at all. When I load up EA Downloader Manager that first screen that shows you about games and stuff says it has been blocked?! I am however able to download the game from the downloader? The IE issue hasn’t bothered me too much as I’m using Firefox which continues to run.
What else? I’ve installed the game via the CD, and via EA DM and I get the same problem both times. Single player works fine.