Pity you don't seem interested in any solutions. At least not enough to be helpful with the kind of information that others need to maybe help you. But here's one. Are you using a combo CD-DVD drive to install it with? Or one of the older pre-16x CD drives? Vue has anti-piracy measures built into it. One of which is a final stabilization run that must occur from the CD (at a guess, I would say it is on a hidden offset layer). Older combo drives and old CD drives can and do have firmware issues, and in the case of the older CD drives, the actual tracking mechanism simply is not able to split scan between tracks. If that finalization does not occur, you will get consistent crashing to the desktop.