BleepingComputer.com: Age of Empires 2 Multi-Player Problem

So me and a friend both have Age of Empires 2 Conquerors Expansion (AoE), and are trying to play a multi-player game to no avail.

His computer is an XP. Mine is Vista. (just to note)
We Have tried to do every thing from LAN-Voobly and we are still unable to connect, we can see the game, but unable to join.

We have been trying to connect games for about 12 hours.

i do have to note that we are both using NoCD cracks because
1) We both own the game, and have for almost 5 years each, and we dont want to scratch the cd's
and 2) my Cd is already messed up and i dont think it will work.
(i read somewhere that NoCd cracks can mess up networking, but i tried without the NoCd crack on Voobly and it still didnt work.

well helping you would promote the use of no cd cracks i think

so i better not say nothing lol