I have a 3 cd version as well bought on the first day of release in Australia. The guy said they had sold out of all the DVD versions and the only difference was in the installation being split over 3 discs.
The world doesn't revolve around the UK and your local computer shop DABHAND.
None of this helps me solve my problems of not being able to execute the BF2.exe file from the day I installed the damned thing. Only way around it was the NoCD.exe but since version 1.02 it's been rendered useless. Mini Images don't work as they still need to access the exe file to kick in.