It's unlikely in the extreme that both your laptop CD drive and your desktop CD drive would fail simultaneously. My best guess is that the problem is simply bad media -- the fact that sometimes things work and sometimes things fail would seem to rule out a software problem (if the problem was with the package itself or related to an installation issue presumably it would never work) and if you're using inexpensive, no-name CD blanks, that very likely could be the source of the trouble.
I'd suggest two things: first, get yourself some name-brand, quality CD blanks (such as TDK), and second, select a slow burn speed (eg, 8X or 16X max) regardless of whatever the advertised top speed of your CD drive might be. Good luck with it
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