I bought the original CoH when it first came out, then OF when that came out. I had no problems with installation or anything.
You probably would need to patch it manually, as when I unistalled CoH for the duration of two patches I had to download the first then second.

Oh yeah, if your looking for technical support then the fansites are better than THQ or Relic.

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