Origin problem

EDIT! FIXED THE ISSUE!
It turns out while google-hopping around looking for a solution, I found this Sims thread about the same error and tried doing something similar to what dreamprisoner did on the first post.
- What I did was go to Program Files > Origin Games > Spore > _Installer > vc > vc2013 > redist
- clicked on vcredist_x86.exe and installed it (apparently the problem was that it wasn't already installed and needed to be done manually)
and the game and expansions downloaded perfectly!
vcredist_x64.exe was also in that folder and still failed to install, but apparently it isn't needed.