Posted this at AOEIII Community site -- but since as a customer I am only
entitled to pay $35 for support of a defective game...........I will post my
forum post complete with typos:
Subject:  Another frustrated use whose game will not start

Can anyone out there help us we are trying to play age of empires and
everytime we try to start it we get this stupid prompt
PLEASE INSERT CORRECT CD-ROM SELECT OK & RESTART APPLICATION
the disk is in there and its a real brought copy not pirate

Hi, I tried to play Age of Empires II with my son multiplayer game in my home
network. Although when I start a game in the first PC, I can see it from the
other, it won't start displaying a message "unable to start". I have checked
all the issues regarding Direct X and done a ...

I am a big fan and love to play Age of Empires II.
Recently, I have started playing AOEII on my Compaq Presario Laptop.
The games starts of well and I am able to make my villagers and army (I
think I can very well play for an hour and then suddenly, the color depth

it seems that whever the installation gets to 51% to the LBRITED.TTF file. it
just stops there. the green light from my cd-rom becomes inactive and also
the orange light for the hard drive...thing....
would anyone know wat i should do...just run it and wait?