Thanks to your help, I am happy to say that I got the cd running, I think that the period in the file name was the problem.

But now I face a new problem, it won't detect my wireless network!

I have a built in wireless card which radios over to a wireless router. As you can see, it works fine on windows. If you can get this solved for me, I am just about certain I won't need to ask any more questions for a while.