Another Mac OS X patching question

[nanzhao]

(Mac OS X 10.2.8, 2x867 G4)

So...I download the 2.15 patch (I just bought the CD), and it doesn't update, giving me the "some files are missing or locked" error. No problem, I think, I'll just check out what it says on the board, and quickly find the Posts about setting the dom2 app permissions to writeable.

Try again. Same error.

So, I reinstall, clearing out everything that was in my previous dominions2 directory, and try again. Same result.

Since then I've tried both getting the earlier patches to see if I could get them to work and burrowing through the .app package to see if setting internal files to writeable would help. Nothing's come through.

So, what exactly should I do here to keep from being chained to 2.02 for eternity?

Seeking wisdom from the southern kingdom.