Deleted Utilties and CD problems - Completly stuck

hi there,
I writing this from my girlfriend who uses an Apple MacBook, OS X 10.4.11 Intel Core Duo.
She once deleted the the "Utilties" folder and seems also to have problems with her CD drive.
As I am "PC" I have no glue how to fix those kind of issues in the Apple world. I created a Linux (Knoppix) bootable CD which works perfect on my Windows machine. I tried to use the same CD to boot from it on the MacBook.
I read in several forums to boot from CD you need to press "C", when you hear the start up sound. I realize that the mac tries to read the cd, but drops out the CD after a while. As my girlfriend said, that CD is not working in general anylonger (she thinks it is realted with the deletion of the utilties folder), I thought I will install Linux (Knoppix 6.2) on a USB-stick and boot from USB (holding the ALT key, when starting up)
When booting up with alt key, it only shows the hard disc to boot from...
... so i googled for a solution for this, and I found in a mac forum people where talking about rEFIt (http://refit.sourceforge.net/). So we downloaded that.
There they say you need to run that "rEFIt.mpkg" file. But the Mac does not recognize mpkg files anylonger as it seams that Apple Installer is missing.
So I googled for that - I found a guy who said to install Apple Installer, you need to have Apple Installer?
It looks like that we are stuck now...
... any ideas what we could do now??
Thank's a lot,
Dominik

Hi Dominik, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Do you have an External CD/DVD reader you could use on the Mac?
Without another Mac around, I think you could try these things...
MacDrive for your PCs... allows them to Read/Write & Format HFS+...
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
Copy/image the Install Disc to a USB drive or stick.
Get Pacifist, the ZIP version...
http://www.charlessoft.com/
then extract/install what you need from her Install Disc/USB Pen copy.
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