No, you don't get what i am saying. I know you still have to activate it through steam and download updates (i've done it plenty of times with other games) but the op said 'the game is not downloaded from steam'. ie. he bought the game in a store and installed it from the disc (still using steam to activate it), thus not having to download anything (providing he already had steam installed and excluding the updates).
Anyway, @original question i think CannonFoddr's right, I wonder if the OP has fixed it yet.