That would be remarkably odd, as the game makes no registry entries, nor does it install any drivers or CODECS, relying on the windows default CODECS etc (which has caused some problems with MP3 sound, as some third party applications have installed their own ones that interfered with Microsoft DirectPlay, hence our reversion to the larger format wav format in later releases).
The files you identified in an earlier post are the bog-standard Borland C++ builder support libraries. Those get installed to support the application, which is built using Borland's C++ builder development environment.
So I would look elsewhere on your system for any problems. We do not do anything that would interfere with your CD drives etc, the game is a standard windows DirectX application.
Hoewver some forms of game copy protection are known to cause CD reading/writing problems on some systems. Which you seem to have had?. So if e.g. you have installed anything that uses the starforce copy protection system then that may have been your problem - google on "starforce". This
link is to a page which lists such games (site itself is rather anti the scheme!
)
You may also want to re-download your patch files again, on the off-chance these have been corrupted on your hard drive (especially if the defrag shows any errors), just to be 100% sure.
Cheers
Andy