in the case of bin and cue files ... the cuesheet (that's the .cue file [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]) is basically a table of contents and an index ... it tells burner software how to burn the cd. The bin is a big dump of the data, and is often larger than the size of the cd it came from. Don't worry about it, point nero or ez-cd creator (or possibly your cd burner software of choice) at the cue file, with the bin in the same directory, under an option somewhere in it to "burn image" or "create cd from cd image" or something like that. It should figure out what to do from there, if it supports bins and cues.

Alternately, there's software to convert bin files (or bins and cues) to iso images. Isobuster and BintoIso come to mind. But those fall along the same lines as Daemon Tools as far as "you have to install stuff" ... so they may be out of the question for you.

I'm deeply concerned for you about this problem you're saying you have with errors popping up trying to install stuff. What sort of errors? Just memory access violation stuff? Have you done a virusscan recently? Have you done memory and hdd integrity tests? Is there free disk space? Have you tried installing in a nonstandard location? Your computer shouldn't be doing that .... and I'd be guessing the source of that problem is malware of some kind (virus, spyware, other scumware are my guesses).

For the record, My preferred method to deal with that sort of stuff is the same as stos's suggestion ... daemontools. Every vcd/svcd/iso I want to use, I use that way (unless it's a boot iso for some other OS or something).