I’ve been schlepping around the CDs of this program since about 2006, and hold on to it like grim death. When we’ve had to move, the CDs go into my never-out-of-sight bag with my jewelry and flash drive of recipes. “Out of my cold, dead hands!”
I took the 2003 CDs and copied them to a 4GB flash drive. Much sturdier and smaller. I put a file on the flash drive named license.txt that contains the license keys. Now the programs and the license keys are in one convenient place.