Quicktime - PowerPoint

My son created a powerpoint presentation on his MAC in Microsoft office. When he saved it to a CD and email it to our PC, the pictures he had downloaded and put in the slides showed up as blank white squares. Also, when he burned it to the CD and also just saved it to a CD, it became a read only file so he couldn't make changes to it. He had to show the presentation on our PC as well as on the PC at his middle school.
Any suggestions on 1. how to save so it's not read-only file going from MAC to PC and 2. what to do about quicktime and pictures not appearing.
Thanks!
JB

Mitchell-- My son had this exact problem. We believe it is due to the fact that the Powerpoint presentation was developed as a file mistakenly using the "30-day free trial" loaded on his Mac --instead of the Student Version of Office we purchased and installed WITHOUT removing the test drive version.
When we placed the burned CD in his Mac and tried to open it...the box said 30-day trial is up !!!!
We haved trashed the free trial and assume we will not see this happen again as I have worked on a MAC at home and a PC at work for too long!!!

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