OK I've got poison to run on my other machine.
Let me check I am trying to do the correct steps now.
I have place the BD file and BIBLIOGR file from the map disk into the folder POISON.
I then run the exe POISON and click forward.
From there I select a click select a map database folder and browse to the folder DB within the directory POISON.
I then get an error message saying. Unable to open database files.