Vista - Cannot install several games!!!!

When installing UT2004 on my machine, specs in Sig, I am getting an error about half-way through install. Error is as follows:

"Failed reading source file: V:\Maps\DOM-Ruination.ut2 (The operation completed successfully.)

The source media may be bad. If installing from a CD, try cleaning the CD to remove any dirt, check your CD drive, and try again."

I have a buddy witn XP 32-bit, and can install the game with same cd no problem. I have even tried installing from an image file, with the same error. The funny thing is, the file name is never the same in the error. This is not only happening with UT2004, but UTIII, Crysis, and Frontlines: Fuel at War. Anyone have any ideas why???

Already Tried: Updating Video, chipset, audio drivers. (reason i updated audio is cuz I was getting kmixer.sys errors)
Updated BIOS
Completely wiped and installed vista x64 again.

I can successfully install Diablo II, Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 4, and some others. Anyone have any ideas?????

I find it amazing that people will spend so much time re-installing their OS for a game...

I don;t understand that kind of mentality.

It sounds like you have a dodgy CD or that file is corrupted in some way.

Also...right click the installer.exe file and run as administrator.

Try those...but re-installing OS is absolutely LAST option.

Hard to believe that a dodgy file exists. As I stated, my buddy was able to install using the exact same cd. I then thought it was the drives, but I even tried installing from an image and it still said the same thing. BTW, re-installing was last resort for me, but didn't help...

Join the club Dufran, I have Vista 64 bit insalled on a 500GB SATA11 HDD and Vista 32 bit installed on my 500GB Nvidia RAID 0 array and I tried installing Flight Sim X Deluxe, first on the 64 bit OS and then on the 32 bit OS, both times it failed to install and it was always when it got to loading the terrain files from the DVD, and I was getting exactly the same messages as you are getting, so I'd check out the file on the DVD and sure enough it would indicate that the file was empty, but after following the instructions at the point where the error occurs and it uninstalls itself and says no changes have been made to the system, I would then try to install it again, but the files it would error out on next are not the exact same ones as previously caused the error, they are from the same directory, but not the same file as before. I tried all the things like installing it in safe mode and as an administrator, I reinstalled Vista but nothing helped, and this bull**** about the disk being corrupt or dodgy is a bloody ****, because it installed fine on windows XP so I'm buggered if I know whats going on, I haven't had any probs installing any other games including Crysis, Stalker COD 4, or Cricket 07, so I took the game back and got a refund, mainly because I purchased it to play on Vista, not XP, so I'm pretty pissed off and confused as to why this is happening. My system should be able to run it, I only finished building it just before Christmas, Specs are;

Intel C2D E6850 @ 3 Ghz, 1333 Mhz FSB
4Gig of OCZ SLI DDR2 800 RAM
Gigabyte 680sli DQ6 MOBO
2 Nvidia 8800GTS 640MB Graphics running in SLI
2 x Samsung 250MB SATA11 HDD running in RAID0 (Vista 32)
1 x Samsung 500GB SATA11 (Vista 64)
1 x Seagate 200GB ATA HDD (WinXP Home)
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Extreme Audio PCI-E sound card
A couple of DVD burners
Dell 24" 2407W-HC LCD monitior and a Dell 2208W 22" LCD monitor (Don't ask).

So the big question is, why the bloody hell cant we install these games that aren't on damaged or corrupted DVD/CD's?