Old CD's on new iBook

Hi! We got our new iBook recently with OSX (Tiger). When I try to run a CD that we used to use with our old iMac, I am told that I need Classic to run the CD. Do you suggest that I install Classic in my brand-new iBook??? That seems absurd. But so does replacing all our CD's. (I'm talking about mostly educational and game CD's)
Suggestions? Thanks!

If you install classic on your new iBook, classic does not replace Tiger. Classic actually runs as a background Tiger application. The only purpose of installing/running classic is to allow you to run pre-OS X applications.
If you need to run those old applications you will need to install classic.

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