My son played football manager until he got a crack in the disc..so he went to buy a new one from the shop...anyway....when he inserts the disc a window pops up asking to insert correct cd/rom and restart..but the same window pops up.

Went into add/remove to try and remove football manager that was already there then installshieldwizard pops up......
Searching for Java 1.4
No Java found on this system
Suitable JVM not found..select a JVM and its EXE file.................................Th ats where i get lost COS i cant see it!!

reinstalled Java...still the same.....

I have xp sp2 home edition....Java 6.2 installed
Do i have to install Java 1.4 for the game to play?..as there were no probs PLAYING the game just a couple of days ago.
I also find now that i am unable to burn a music CD in itunes..just keeps asking to insert a blank disc!! This ACTUALLY sounds like the physical drive is starting to have issues...can you swap it into another machine to verify ? ?
If it does the same THING it's time for a new drive.