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Unless someone here has used Acer recovery disks (I have not) it will be hard for us to imagine what is happening. Have you tried to find an Acer support forum to discuss this?
In the alternative you might try posting a few screen shots to show exactly what you are seeing when you boot from DVD, ending with the "can't load image" screen of course.
Otherwise the only thing I can think of is a long shot: that the disk drive you swiped out of the Compaq is too small for Acer's process. But even 40GB should be enough--I think I have a 40GB SSD in my Acer netbook running W7HP x64.