Classic conundrum in 10.3

A friend has a G4 iBook running 10.3.9. She has an educational CD-ROM, and when one doubleclicks the CD's desktop icon, it offers two installers - one for installing in OS9 and one for OSX. However, on her machine, doubleclicking on the OSX icon launches OS9 and Classic.
I tried it on my G5 iMac running 10.4.6, and the OSX icon launches the installer in OSX, as it should. On her machine, I tried the usual: repaired permissions, relaunched the finder, restarted, even ran disk repair via fsck.
Any ideas on how to get the OSX installer to launch correctly on her G4 iBook? Perhaps an errant plist that I should trash?

Ali
Thanks for your reply. An educational CD-ROM is a CD-ROM of educational content (eg a dictionary, a French grammar, a Spanish vocabulary developer, a collection of literary resources on Melville's Moby Dick etc etc). In this case, it's a set of intermediate grammatical and lexical activities for learners of English. She got it directly from the publishers (Oxford University Press).
She's trying to install the contents of the said CD-ROM, namely the grammatical and lexical activities. When she clicks the "install using OSX" icon, it launches OS9 and Classic instead.
I know it does work, because when I click on the same icon, it opens the content-installer correctly - I'm in 10.4.6, she's in 10.3.9 (which may be totally irrelevant!).

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Classic conundrum

A friend has a G4 iBook running 10.3.9. She has an educational CD-ROM, and when one doubleclicks the CD's desktop icon, it offers two installers - one for installing in OS9 and one for OSX. However, on her machine, doubleclicking on the OSX icon launches OS9 and Classic.
I tried it on my G5 iMac running 10.4.6, and the OSX icon launches the installer in OSX, as it should. On her machine, I tried the usual: repaired permissions, relaunched the finder, restarted, even ran disk repair via fsck.
Any ideas on how to get the OSX installer to launch correctly on her G4 iBook? Perhaps an errant plist that I should trash?
Edit: sorry, I should've posted this on the 10.3 board - have now done so. However, any suggestions here also welcome!
Message was edited by: John Potts

Carl
Thanks for your follow-up, but my post is obviously not clear.
1 it's a CD-ROM of educational software
2 to install whatever content the CD-ROM contains, ones must first click on the CD's icon on the desktop
3 upon doing so, the window shows two icons: one to install the content under OS9 and one to install said same content under OSX
4 on my machine (10.4.6), clicking the OSX icon opens the content installer correctly and I can go ahead with installing the contents of the CD-ROM
5 on her machine (10.3.9), clicking on the OSX icon opens the content installer erroneously and launches OS9 and Classic instead
My question is: how can she get the content-installer icon to function correctly so that she can install the content of this educational CD-ROM in OSX 10.3.9 (given that I know it works correctly on my machine under 10.4.6)?
Sorry that this wasn't clear in my first post and thanks again for the suggestions.
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