Hi Phil,

I've been using Guide 8 with Crossover (and Wine) for years without any DRM/security issues.

I don't really know what I had to do to make it work but I think I remember to have to do something to make Guide "forget" about the CD.
Check if you startup.mar file (in the main Guide directory) has a line like this:

18 drive    c:\Program Files\guide8\

If you have it pointing to the cd drive, just change it as per above.

Regards,
JC

P.S.: I run Guide8, but I guess Guide9 is not much different