My Mac won't read the Photoshop Elements disc - help!

Adobe Photoshop Elements will not load onto my Mac - the computer won't even read it.  It just whirrs a bit and then ejects the disc.  I have no problems with DVDs, CDs and Snow Leopard is read without any trouble.  What is causing this?  Please help!  The disc is not faulty - I returned the first one thinking there was a problem but exactly the same thing is happening with disc no 2.  It does load on to a PC (well as much as it can) so there is no problem with the disc itself.

Thanks Barbara for contacting me..
Emma, as per what I have read above, this seems to be very weird scenario. To be frank, I dont have a direct answer as to why the DVD is not running properly on the machine and why does it ejects automatically.
But, I can suggest a workaround.
Can you insert the DVD on some other machine(Win/Mac), and copy the complete "Adobe Photoshop Elements 8" folder on some external drive.
Then attach the external drive to your Mac and copy the folder onto your machine say on the desktop.
If this much part can be done, then you just need to go inside the folder, and double click on Setup.app to launch the installer.
Does it helps?
Regards,
Ankush

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