Wow, I just opened my 8.2 Professional CD set only to find major scratches to most of the disks. After carefully removing the first DVD from its sleeve only to find a mess of scratches, I cut the corners on each of the remaining sleeves with an exacto knife and removed the disks by lifting the upper sleeve away and extracting the disk. They were all scrathed but to a lessor degree. My DVD 1 (Install) stalls after selecting "new system", during the pre-partitioning phase of the install. Is this a result of the disk damage? The CD 1 seems to work ok, reporting recommended partitions and a full page of install options. Has anyone elce had their DVD #1 fail? Cheers! Kirb Calgary, AB --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.473 / Virus Database: 271 - Release Date: 4/17/2003