CS3 Design Premium won't install - Asking for CS4 disk 1

I own both CS3 Design Premium and CS4 Production Premium on my iMac with Snow Leopard. Mac OS X 10.5.8
I have all CS4 programs installed. I only have Dreamweaver installed on CS3.
I need to use InDesign and tried to install from CS3 Design Premium disk. After disk one runs for a short time, the program asks me to insert disk 1 from CS4 Production Premium. After reading that disk, it asks to put CS3 disk 1 in. These messages continue and I can't get anywhere.
Anything I can do? Uninstall both programs and reinstall?
Thanks

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