Finally. FINALLY!!! This is why I kept my now 10 year old XP-laptop... I was a bit apprehensive as I read about other with a similar set-up not being able to run TSLRCM, but nothing ventured, nothing gained.
And what a success.
Now, the sour note: whether it is permanent or currently, the official patches for non-US versions of TSL CANNOT be downloaded from LucasArts homepage. I found them somewhere else online (gamefront[dot]com) after a quick search (and the HQ music and video patches - not that I need them...), so a small addendum in the Vista/7 tweak guide is sorely needed to spare other gamers the heartache I have been through...
Game patched and modded, I cautiously inserted the disc and pressed play.
Now I have difficulty getting my arms down, and when that succeeds, I don't get enough sleep. And I have a smile on my face that simply doesn't vanish...
So sincerely, deeply and a lot of other too small words-ly, THANK YOU to you modders, that have spend years making this great game as great as it was supposed to be.
Now, if you will excuse me... I have a brand new old game to beat...