The CD...it reads slow, and makes all of the usual cliché scratchy, grinding noises that a bad disk makes. I...think it's dead now, permanently.
The real problem is that I didn't get anything more off of it, and Paint.net is a bit heavy of a program for that particular computer. I'm hoping to go home this coming weekend, so I can make a couple of new backup disks. I think I'm gonna' leave some there, too, if only so I have more than one copy.
It doesn't help my concern that Xepher had a disk drive (on which he hosts my site) fail, which could lose info. Of course, Xepher has everything backed up, so there doesn't seem to have actually been any downtime.