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Firstly, the DriverPacks do not have to get unpacked usually.

Secondly, if you still want to do that, use http://www.7-zip.org/.
It is OS, free and even more efficient than WinZip or WinRAR.

Use the link in my sig to obtain them.

That looks a lot as if the disc cannot be properly read.
Try to check the disc for bad sectors (http://www.cdspeed2000.com/) or simply reburn it if rewritable (RW).

Also make sure the drive's lense is not scratched nor covered with dust etc.

Testing the ISO image in a VM is a good idea to verify the image itself is not borken (bad RAM, bad HDD etc.).

Nah, of course not!

In that case, though, I'm sure you will notice the problems in the first phase of XP setup, as it's the Text mode drivers.
If they make problems for me, most of the time, I wasn't even able to see the HDD dedicated to get installed on, so no harm done.

Still, using an RW saves you a lot of headaches

I only burn my UWXPCD to an R once or twice a year (sort of a hard backup for you-never-know) and only when I'm 100% there are no problems.

As Jaak has already pointed out and I cannot stress this often enough:
The use of Rewritable (also commonly known as [b]RW[/]) media will entirely circumvent this problem as the discs can be re-used up to 1,000 times while costing maybe 1.5x times that of a wite-once medium.
It doesn't take that much to figure out which is the better deal in the (not so) long run, moreso when virtually every CD/DVD writer suports that format.

In any case, testing the ISO file in a VM before burning can save you some trouble, moreso when you do not have a dedicated testing system you can rely on for installation.
Nothing worse than trying to reinstall your main rig only to find out you made some little but stupid mistake that means you will have to do it all over.

The latter I would assume.
Really, how often do you (re-)install the VM?
Unless it takes several days to do so, that is really negligible.
But if you come to think about how often you (or we at least) install some test version of XP inside the VM, then it actually does matter, even if it's "just" ten minutes less

I can't give you actual figures, but from my perception they are indeed rather big - at least big enough to be mentioned on the topic of Virtual Machines

Oh, and they definately have a big share of Mac Virtualisation I am sure!

That, and the reason I provided linkage to the other two is so that users still have a free choice what to pick

The best is usually to test as many as possible and then choce whatever you like best!

Same here, and even the RC was nice.
Good to see it moved to final now, whatever that means with MS

Of course, you can also use VMWare which also supports your physically present USb devices, however, I found VPC to somehow work out better and faster for me.

The thrid big player in the Virtual Machine business is Parallels, however, they merely have a free trial version up.
OTOH, you can also run this on a Mac

Yeah, yeah, here I am

Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't check whether that one actually did pin point to the driver files or not.
In that case, do as muiz told you!

Now, that is the completely wrong approach, I'm sorry to say.

In fact, request are only to be posted in the appropriate sub-forums.
You did it right in your second post where you included the DL link.