It keeps on ejecting my Office 2011

I ordered my Office 2011 for Mac, and it arrived yesterday.
When i was all excited and jam it in my drive, it ejects it, every time.
weird sounds come out from the drive, i tried DVD lens cleaner, didn't work.
Other disks read fine, i don't know is it my MBP's problem, or the disk. If it is the disk.....sigh.....whats with Microsoft anyways....
Got any ideas?

The disks don't work on MacBook Pro's for some reason. I posted this in the Microsoft Office Mac forum, and I got a number of people who replied that the disk works on their iMac's but not their MacBook Pro's. What a friggin joke. I finally got it to work by using an external cd rom drive I have laying around.

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You must be using an update CD. You need the software that has the full version first - install that, then you can use the update one if needed. I know, cuz I made the same mistake - lol

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MacKeeper, being poorly written, acts like highly invasive malware* that can de-stablize your operating system. It is also unethically marketed and a rip-off, offering nothing that is not available for free.. Positive reviews of it are known to have been paid for by the developers, Zeobit.
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http://applehelpwriter.com/2011/09/21/how-to-uninstall-mackeeper-malware/
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I have a MacBook Pro (purchased in 2011) with OS X Lion 10.7.4. I'm using Microsoft Office 2011 and cannot open older PowerPoint Files (non .pptx). It will always open the same .pptx file and then the machine hangs up and just keeps spinning.

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Thank you - that all makes sense. It is, indeed, exactly what I did when I upgraded.
I'm also writing this on the machine that crashed a few minutes ago (I posted the crash in another thread). I got back with a 'safe boot' - as I have done a few times before.
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I had had great hopes for 10.7.2 - I thought that the crashes must be pretty common, so would have a common aetiology. There do seem to have been some fundamental changes to the file sytem and to the video interface (that seems to cause problems to brand new iMacs as well as to my 2009 iMac).

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Ejecting the stuck disc can usually be done in one of the following ways:
1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
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2. Press the Eject button on your keyboard.
3. Click on the Eject button in the menubar.
4. Press COMMAND-E.
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G@dgetgirl wrote:
Thanks Eric, but I'd already found that procedure and this is exactly what I did. Didn't work, alas. Or rather, it worked alright since I've got no traces of MS OFfice on my Mac anymore. But it still won't install from the installation disk. Below is the error message, in Dutch. It says the installation failed due to an error in the installation program and that I should contact Microsoft.
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Sorry for the English i'm actually french speaking.

Please post Office questions on the Microsoft Mac forums:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac

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