Need help ...cant get Ancestry CD's to install etc.

[John H]

Hi, Looking for some help from a "savvy someone" in the know!

My friend, (not too PC savvy, and Im thought I was until these
CD's wouldnt work) recently purchased,
Family Tree Maker 2005 and with it came 5 Ancestry CD's namely
(1) English Parish records
(2) Scottish Parish records
(3) 1851 Census UK (11 files only) no setup file
(4) British Chancery Set1 vol 1 (9 files only) no setup file
(5) British Chancery Set1 vol 2 (9 files only) no setup file

Now for the wierd bit

He installed the Ancestry viewer version 2 which autoruns upon inserting
English (or Scottish ) Parish records CD
then after reboot he fires up the Ancestry Viewer with the
either English or Scottish Parish records in CD drive and all works OK
BUT if he places any of the other 3 CD's into CD drive and fires up
Ancestry viewer , nothing happens.

So we looked at the other 3 CD install instructions and they are the
same as for the parish records CD's,so we tried to install each but
they didnt autorun and when trying to do it manuall y there is
NO SETUP.exe to do it from (No files on those 3 discs which look
like anything other than data files),on any of these 3 CD's even though
their install instructions on how to manually do it say to go to CD drive
and then select START > RUN >select setup.exe.and OK .

Has anyone else got these discs and is there any tricks to doing
installation of this set.

As well as the above, Can anyone advise whether it is possible to
copy these discs to a hard disk, install from there and get them working.
We tried this as well and Ancestry viewer didnt even want to know about
anything but the CD drive.
Any contribution to assist (hopefully not rude) would be gratefully
accepted and tried out.

regards
John H