I tried what u suggested but was confused by what it was doing because it was
downloading a program nd i didnt know what it was or what to do next. i tried
uninstalling and reinstalling but now norton wont even let me download the game.
is there anyway to have norton bypass the check without deleting the program?

Try this. This was the original file that I downloaded early this morning to fix the
sprite issue.

You will have to unzip the files and drag them one by one into your .spr folder.
If you extract all to the .spr folder it just copies the folder, so one by one is safest.
Takes about 10min to do the whole thing.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ON61A9GL