Help! FCS2 Won't install on Snow Leopard?

I installed Snow Leopard. Installation Goes fine until the very end. You stick in the last disc and it comes up and says installation failed. I really need this to work. Do I really have to downgrade to Leopard so My FCS2 will work.
Thanks for any help.
It's academic if that helps any.

I'm having similar issues. iTunes 9 hung during the install. When it launched, it hung on converting the library, but eventually did it. Took well over a half hour. Then it automatically tried to do a Genius update.
Well, that also hung iTunes and almost an hour.
I then plugged in my wife's 32 GB Touch. Again hung iTunes. Force Quit and re-launch, and it detects the iPod and prompts to update to 3.1.1. Halfway through the update I get a spinning beach ball.
After that is done and I finally sync the **** touch, I update my Podcasts. Spinning beach ball and 15 minutes later, no updates.
Then I turned SoundCheck on. Instant beach ball. It's been an hour and half and it hasn't even done 25% of my library yet. It moves along slowly, but there's a spinning beach ball throughout the whole process so far.
I've rebooted between each spinning beach ball and force quit more times than I can count.

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1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
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I'm having similar issues. iTunes 9 hung during the install. When it launched, it hung on converting the library, but eventually did it. Took well over a half hour. Then it automatically tried to do a Genius update.
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When PSE 8 was released for the Mac, I bought a copy from Amazon. I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.2 on two 24" iMacs and one MBP 15.3. The Adobe installer would hang about three quarters through the installation. I'm running PSE 6 for Mac without a problem. I returned the software to Amazon without a problem.
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is it allowed to display one's email in the plain ? i'll try it though i might jeopardize my level 2 status. gosh, you have to be so +politically correct+ these days, unlike the old days in the west where anything used to go (i loved the show Deadwood, me, if that was anything like the real west, though).
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