Can't see photos on a PC formatted CD-R

I was given a CD-R by my father-in-law containing some photos of my kids that were taken on a day trip.
The disc has a semi-colon at the end of the disc name.
It contains items called:
autorun.inf
cdgo.psd
cdgo.tre
files.txt
PicasaCD.exe
Pictures (This one's a folder)
setup.exe
Unfortunately, when I look in the folder entitled "Pictures" I see the title of the first photo (which incidentally contains a semi-colon) with no preview icon & nothing else.
The disc plays fine on my DVD player & I can view the photos there but I'd like to add them to my iPhoto library so that I can get prints done.
I'm used to PCs not being able to read Mac discs in the old days but I've never had a problem viewing PC discs on a Mac before.
Could anyone shed any light?
(The reason I mention the semi-colon is because I once had a problem when I sent a mac disc to a PC user who could only see half the file names on some of the photos & it turned out it was because I used an asterisk in them which caused the file names to truncate. So, maybe a semi-colon is an illegal character in Mac file names.)

Perhaps the files have a period or something at the beginning of the file names? You'll need to enable the viewing of hidden files - there are several ways to do this. The one I use is typing (copy and pasting) "defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES" (without the quotation marks) into terminal, then pressing enter, then relaunching finder. Once you're done looking/working with the hidden files, repeat the procedure subbing NO for the YES.
Just an idea - I don't know if this'll solve the problem.

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