Dragon Age DLC... Not so easy to install.

I'm doing another run of Dragon Age Origins recently. It's really a fantastic game, and I figured that I should play through all the DLC that I haven't had the time to play up until now. So, I started off by buying a bunch of BioWare's/EA's pretend-money called BioWare points. Ok, It's not my intention to be a douchebag about this, but this post will be a somewhat irritated one, sorry. I think that it's very unnecessary to bring another transaction step into the deal, why could I not be able to buy the DLC directly with my credit card? I could buy the exact amount of BioWare points for the DLC, so I wasn't forced to buy more points than I needed (which could of course be a sneaky way to make more money otherwise), but then why couldn't I buy directly, with real world currency?

Superb game... not so superb at having easily installed DLC

Well, anyway, the transactions went smoothly, both of them, and I soon had the DLC "The Darkspawn Chronicles" registered to my account; but here is where the troubles began. The in-game installation process did not proceed beyond 0%. I waited and watied and finally I restarted the game. After the restart the game didn't even aknowledge that I had bought the DLC, it didn't attempt to download anything at all. A quick look at my online BioWare profile did assure me that I had the DLC registered to my account though. So why wouldn't the game recognise this? Why wouldn't it install?

Some quick googling revealed loads of people with DLC problems of varying nature, including several with my exact problem. The thing is that fixes supplied by helpful forum members or internet game gurus, that seemed to solve many problems, didn't solve mine. I googled a lot more, read forum posts, attempted proposed solutions, deleted files, changed files, reinstalled the game, installed the DLC manually, deleted them, redid it etc. etc.

In the end, after nearly a day's work and now having significantly more grey hair than before, I got "The Darkspawn Chronicles" to work, finally!
The problem now was; none of my other DLCs worked, inlcuding all pre-order and promotional items, and even Awakening. Can't have it all, I suppose, be humble and grateful my mother always told me.

Ok, but seriously, this was a mess, and my internet searches suggested that I wasn't the only one having problems with the DLC. I guess the system has been blessed with some sort of super security measures to stop piracy, but come on. If the proposed method to stop piracy is to simply make the DLCs unplayable for everyone I think it's time to go back to the drawing board with it.

Well, anyway, I figured I should play though "The Darkspawn Chronicles" while I had the chance, and it was a blast, so I'll probably be suckered into buying the rest of the DLC packages as well. Which I guess means that I'll use my wallet to vote "Approve" on the DLC system... damn...
Before I do any of that I have to get all my old DLCs and Awakening to work though. Wish me luck!

All the best