I don't think its the copy protection, unless id (...guess what it is I'm having trouble with) has been very tricksy and managed to copy protect CD 2 (and possibly 3) but not 1. BUt why would they?
The CD seems fine (when I insert it, it autoruns and says "please inster CD1 to install"), and the file that the installer is looking for is on the CD. My problem is that I can't really remember where it is that I got it from, so I can't go back and ask for help (it doesn't help than the Suprnova forums have gotten all anal and now don't tolerate any torrent related talk).
I don't neither Nero nor CloneCD installed on this computer, only Alcohol 120% ( and before that I had onlu Daemon Tools with Alcohol), so I don't think its detecting any CD burning programs, other than the one beng used to mount it, which I guess is necessary.
sigh
There has to be a simple, logical explaination for this. In theory I could ask on PIrateBay, though their forums are in Swedish...