I bought an iWorks '09 disk...it will NOT install...

It's not the disk. It's my computer.
I've reached the end of a road.
All I really NEED is Pages '09.  I've been using the first version for years...since it first came out. I have some book files I want to see if I can convert to ePub files so I can upload them to the iBooks store.
I loaded the disk and just clicks a few times then spits it back out. I've tried all the tricks. My computer is old. All I use it for anymore is writing, Photoshop, and Garageband.  I was so happy to be able to buy a new copy of iWorks on ebay. I now have the disk but no installation. I don't know what to do now. Any suggestions?

I have an external harddrive. And prior the the total fail on the DVD drive, I had already completely restored my OS as if out of the box, hoping that it would have replaced whatever it was that was taken out. Alas, and to my utter shock...it did NOT.
But it did cross my mind to buy a DVD/CD drive and see if that helps.
No. That file remover app was insidious. There is no replacing whatever it was that it took out that made my CD work. Now the DVD is simply too pooped to pop I think.  I'll look for a new drive.
What this experience taught me is something that made me suspicious of CD's and DVD's in the first place....fail, scratches, etc. But then I take very good care of my disks, so my hesitancy to use them dissipated until I was at ease. And then THIS kind of thing happened! 

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