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(Get the code!)
I selected the "nomodeset" F6 boot option and it comes right up without error. Of course it is running the fall back 2D desktop with metacity and it warned me about that. The other errors, including "no human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type" and oops / panics did not happen this time either.
I created desktop launchers for gnome-terminal and firefox and I am posting this from this live CD session.
I notice that the early CD read errors still appear in dmesg, but I installed dd_rescue and the whole CD (/dev/sr0) reads fine with it, without any errors or even slowdowns (which would imply retries). There is apparently some issue with the SquashFS or with driver initialization, but I have seen this sort of thing before IIRC.
I notice that the machine check at exactly 300 seconds (plus / minus 1/20th second) is logged in dmesg like in Maverick and earlier.
I get an informational popup that non-free drivers are available and will try to install nvidia-96 to see what happens. It looks like this video card may need to be blocked from loading 3D support if you can't get this fixed.