Ok, forget my last post, not that anyone could help anyway.
I gave up trying to fix the game load problem and reinstalled my system just in case. Went to reinstall CIV and it only gets 93% of the way through before coming up with this:

Component: Program_Files

File Group: Scenario_Files [ENGLISH]
File: I:\data2.cab
Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check).

Any ideas?
I've cleaned the cdrom and even tried a different cd drive both to no avail.

:confused:

I wish I could offer something more constructive, but, talk with Infogrames Tech Support.

Cheers, have done so already. Also tried this on another machine and failed (same error). Leads me to conclude that the cd has somehow grown a physical fault (not a mark on it though).

Or both machines have same problem