IMac 5,1 will not load applications

Greetings, My sons purchased Civilization III Complete on a DVD for the Mac and Black and White Platinum Pack for a Mac from the Apple Store. We are unable to load either program to the computer. The computer is reading the disks as we can see them on the desktop. When we click on the install program they dance in the apps tray and disappear. Nothing happens. The Civilization disk asks us to copy the Civilization folder to the hard drive which we did. It still does not seem to work. The dvd drive appears to work as we are able to watch dvd's on it.
We are new to Macs. I have looked up the issue on the Apple site and on each of the game sites. But haven't really come up with an answer. Any ideas? Thank you.

Because MS Office isn't launching, and because it currently runs in Rosetta (emulation layer) I'm thinking that your version of Civ. III is also trying to run in Rosetta. The patch I linked to above I think will bring you up to the Universal Binary version. But, since you can't even install the version you have, I don't think you be able to apply the patch to something not even installed. So....we have to get Rosetta working on your computer first.
Through googleing about, I've read where others have had problems with Rosetta after upgrading to the latest version of quicktime or the OS X 10.4.10 update offered through Software Update. Some have been able to get Rosetta working by reapplying the update through use of the OS 10.4.10 Combo Updater. Here the link:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10410comboupdatev11intel.html
Since you say your new to Macs, you might not be aware of the updating ritual many experienced Mac users perform before and after updates so here goes: Before installing an update and after installing an update, repair disk permissions through use of Disk Utility (in you Appllication/Utilities folder). Many swear that by doing this, they are avoiding problems with their systems that crop up after updating.
Anyway, good luck. If it were me, I'd try reapplying the update to see if that fixes the problem.
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