I have successfully installed virtualbox under Ubuntu 9.04 and have
Windows XP running in it.

Now I need to know how to install Windows applications in the guest
Windows. My whole reason for using Virtualbox is to have Windows
available when I need to run one of the few Windows applications for
which I can't find a complete Linux replacement. These are: WordPerfect,
Quicken, Quickbooks, Finale PrintMusic and Delorme Street Atlas. So I
want to install these in the guest Windows. Wordperfect was successful
and runs as well as if it were in a native Windows. If the others can
get installed there, then I can make Ubunto my primary OS on all my PCs
and run Windows only when I need it for one of those special applications.

When I try to access a CD from the guest, I don't see the whole
directory or the files, so I have not been able to run the install
software from a CD. Is there some special process I am missing?