Overview
So the other guides for installation seem to rehash the same material, I found that additional info about the directory was needed.
Reference material
[link]This is the guide available in Fr/En.
It has a couple of errors that make the directory not work for the keys.
My addtion to the guide
This is an image of the directory that holds my Spore install. It’s in a second library on my secondary HD
Selecting the text to grab the location on the disk! Cut and paste ahoy!
Whoops! I assumed that the characters would be correct! |/| is not equal to ||!
In this next image you can hopefully see:
On the bottom is the key generated by the autofix program available here:
{LINK REMOVED}http://www.mediafire.com/download/1tgz9uy8nqey6q4/SporeRegFixforSTEAM.zip
On the top is the incorrect directory value I was trying to use.
There we go.
Correct value.
derp
Launches the game for me.
Also note that verifying the cache seems to erase the key entries.