Elements 6 Mac - install problems

I am using Mac OS X v. 10.5.6
A while ago, I downloaded, installed and used the Elements 6 Mac trial version. The trial period has now expired. I have just purchased the boxed software, assuming that I could simply enter the serial number and carry on using the already installed software.
However, the trial version does not accept the serial number that I have from my DVD package. On the front of the box, it states "Not for distribution in Asia Pacific or North America". I am in the UK, so I'm wondering if there is something different about the serial number required by the trial version - has anyone else experienced this problem?
I have tried to install from the DVD, but that also fails. On initialising Setup, I get the following javascript error message:
Critical errors were found in setup
- Incompatible payloads already installed
Please see the Setup log file for details.
I'm probably not the first to have encountered this issue. I'd be very grateful if someone here can help, or point me to an appropriate FAQ or similar.

[email protected] wrote:
> Yes, if you don't have the uninstaller for the trial version (you didn't save the download) or if it doesn't work, just trash the program. It's preferable to use the uninstaller since Adobe installers strew stuff all over the hard drive rather than following the mac developer guidelines for putting everything into a neat package, but cleanscript will nuke all the adobe stuff it can find, so hopefully it will get the trouble-causing bits.
>
> You would have had exactly the same problem with the trial version of PS and the retail version, on both platforms, incidentally. That's why Adobe wrote the cleanscript.
>
> There are often conflicts between the Adobe installers for recent versions of PS/PSE and things already in your user folder. Rather than try to root through all those thousands of files to figure out where exactly the conflict lies, it's easiest to create a new virgin user folder for the install, but you can wait to see if you have trouble running from your existing account if you want.
Thank you Barbara for your help. I finally got rid of the trial version
and installed the purchased software after running the cleanscript. (I
did not need to create an additional user).

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