You say you've got the O'Reilly CD, so why not just make a folder on your HD and copy it there? That's what I did because I got sick and tired of having to remember to haul the CD between work and home. Plus it's a lot faster to search it from your HD than the CD.

And as far as the links being broken, I've never had that problem on mine. Perhaps you should contact O'Reilly about that. Also, I believe that the new version of the Perl CD Bookshelf does not have the Tk book on it.