Creatures Caves

I recently had to replace the hard drive on my laptop, which naturally necessitated the re-installation of all my software including my Creatures games. (I was fortunate to be able to have enough advance warning of imminent failure with the old disk to be able to save nearly all my files.) However, for some unknown reason, I'm running into problems with both Docking Station and Creatures The Albian Years which I didn't have on my old hard drive.

Docking Station appeared to install correctly, but when I attempted to install the CFE egg pack for the original Cyberlife breeds, attempting to hatch anything other than a Bondi or ChiChi CFE resulted in an error message saying that the game could not create the image files. The error messages went away when I changed the gender for each breed on the Muco...but when I attempt to hatch a CFE norn that isn't a Bondi or a ChiChi, something goes wrong with the body data. The resulting norn usually has the right head, but has either a Bondi or ChiChi torso. I uninstalled Docking Station and re-installed it, even downloaded fresh copies of the CFE egg packs -- but last time I checked,, I still had the problem. The only thing I can think is that perhaps my copy of the Docking Station installation file (which had been on the old hard drive) might have become corrupted in some way when the old drive began to fail, and I'm downloading a fresh copy now to see if that will help. The only other possibility I can think of -- which doesn't make much sense to me -- is that a Windows update is interfering with the game in some way, but the fact that the problem is so specific to CFE breeds leads me to doubt that this is the case.

CTAY is giving me a different problem. Everything seemed to be fine at first...but now when I try to run Creatures 2, it asks me to stick the CD-ROM in the drive. I may try re-installing CTAY to see if this resolves the problem...but this has never happened before.