Lost Planet Extreme Condition & Steam

[Jedimaster Player]

Hi Everyone
I have something Interesting Happen to me & I am Stunned.

Yesterday I bought the Lost Planet Extreme Condition & a few hours later I decided to Install it, so I put the DVD in the Drive & starft Installing...

1st it wants to install Steam, ok so I let it do its thing... it completes successfully then as it go's back to Installing the actual Game a message comes up saying that it cannot install because a steam.dll cannot be found, boy I almost blue a fuse in anger...

So I tried heaps of times including formatting & re-installing on fresh Copy of WinXP Install etc... every single time it failed exactly the same message.

Wait to you here this:
I got my Original CD of Half-Life 2 & Installed Steam from that... then I put in my Lost Planet Extreme Condition DVD in the Drive, I didn't bother Installing Steam from this DVD & started installing from the game Setup installer, well guess what it worked successfully, installed Serial & Activated successfully.

Decision Time
So now if I want to Install Lost Planet Extreme Condition I have to use my Half-Life 2 CD to Install Steam 1st, so what can I do about this ? I am now Confused.

Has anybody got any Solution to this ?
I Believe my DVD is Faulty & I rang up the Place where I purchased it & told them so they said to me that it would take a few weeks to get 1 in for me, but thats ok. But what about the Serial I used on my Current DVD ? well I said to the place of Purchase that I would need to keep my Manual as its the Serial I used, they said yea sure we can do that, so I am guessing that they will just keep the Old manual & the DVD I send tham Back & they will send it back to where ever thay do.

Has any1 else had this problem ?

Thanks in Advance