Spore won't open

I may or may not be having this problem. If not, I am having a form of it. I had previously owned Spore on disc, but due to computer crashes and the product key having limited uses, the key became useless. About a year ago I purchased Spore on steam. It worked for a few weeks, but then I started getting crashes upon startup. In an attempt to fix this, I had used the product key to download the game by disc to try to get past the crash, but it still occurred, this time giving me an error message stating that something had called for a virtual function error with C++. Eventually I had given up trying ot get it to work, but now I am trying it again. After looking around, I saw a post on the Steam community stating that getting hte game on Origin would fix the startup crash problem. I tried this, and it did not work. Does anyone know how to fix this? it would be very much appreciated if someone could find a fix for this issue.I have tried very hard to get this game to work, and I really want to be able to play again without having to buy a new computer.

The error that I recieved can be viewed at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/125749