Adobe on Leopard, refuses to boot from disc, disaster?

After buying Adobe CS3 Web Premium, I found out I couldn't install it because my drive was formatted as case-sensitive. So, I was forced to backup all my important data and re-initialize. I zeroed the drive, but told it to skip zeroing just before it was done with the last little sliver in the progress bar.
So, I get all the whole system updated. Install Aperture, Thunderbird, Firefox... everything is going great. Then get the updates for Aperture, everything works flawlessly. I had never seen it run so well. Then I finally install CS3 and the install process seems to go without a hitch.
So, I've got CS3 on there, but I want to do some stuff with Aperture before I get into it. I'm working with Aperture and everything is going great. Good performance, really speedy. Then, I decide to open Illustrator CS3. To my horror, Aperture starts to go completely wrong. It gets to the point where I can't use it for longer than 30 seconds without having it crash. So, I quit Illustrator and the problem persists. Finally, I decide to restart the machine, Aperture seems to have fixed itself with restart, everything seems to be alright, for now.
Hmm, I think, maybe the CS3 needs to be updated. Yes, it did, 524 MB of updates. The installer downloads it all, starts the updating process and hangs silently (liquid in the progress bar still flowing). I get no notification except in Activity Monitor, where launchd and another process (I forget which) are going crazy with the CPU. I force-quit the updater from Activity Monitor, reopen it, press the install button again. It doesn't do anything, so I found out I actually have to say "Delete All" as in, delete all the downloaded updates. Then the updater quits itself and I have to reopen it and redownload and install whatever the installer thinks didn't get updated. I had to force quit, delete all, redownload, and install about 5 times before it said it was through.
Oh man, that was bad. Now the whole machine is pretty much a sluggish mess. Naturally, I thought, "I'll run Disk Warrior." I had run it with an earlier version of Leopard before, so I expected it to work. Insert Disk Warrior, Restart, hold C key, disc spins for a second and ejects itself. System ignores my command and boots from hard drive.
But everything loads and things seem alright, so I think, "oh well, I guess everything is alright." I do some work in Illustrator, everything seems good. Listening to music, but not working in Aperture. The machine works great for about 2 days. Then, I decided I want to install Final Cut - I put in the Install DVD, it spins for a second and spins back down, nothing happens. No desktop icon, no optical drive showing up in Disk Utility, Eject button on keyboard doesn't work, iTunes - control > Eject Disc, now my iTunes is hung. I try to force quit, nothing happens. Force quit dialog, iTunes is listed as if it hasn't crashed, click force quit, it remains in the list. iTunes icon remains in the dock, arrow still below, but does nothing when I click it and won't poof. iTunes doesn't show up in Activity Monitor.
Okay, "definitely gonna try Disk Warrior again," I think to myself. Restart, reset PRAM twice, hold option to boot select screen, press eject to remove FCE disc, insert Disk Warrior, Disk Warrior icon shows up on screen, click it, click the arrow to boot to it. Wait a second - BSOD, no cursor! Disc spins for a while and stops. Press any key, it spins back up again and eventually dies down again, doing nothing. Forced shutdown holding power button, press power again, hold the C key to boot to disc. Disk Warrior spins up again and spits itself out, just as before. System boots to hard drive instead.
What am I doing wrong? The Mac Pros at school run Leopard and CS3 and they seem to be flawless. Am I the only one having these problems? I can't figure out if this is hardware or software. I'm currently creating an image of the Disk Warrior disc. I plan to restore it to my hard drive's second partition and see what happens. I'll let you know what happens. Until then, can anybody give me any hints on what might be wrong with my system or at least give me some sympathy? LOL. This is beyond frustrating.
I'd had my system ignore what seemed like successful insertion of optical discs and refuse to eject them before the fresh install, but I've never had it refuse to boot from a bootable disc like this. Any ideas?

Excuse me, it seems there is some data in the CrashReporter log for VersionCueCS3. I had forgotten to remove my search filter keyword.
This is a copy of the top section (which seems like it might be the most significant). If you want to see the rest, I'll gladly post it as well:
Process: VersionCueCS3Status [1577]
Path: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Version Cue CS3/Server/bin/VersionCueCS3Status.app/Contents/MacOS/VersionCueCS3Status
Identifier: VersionCueCS3Status
Version: ??? (???)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [1]
Date/Time: 2008-09-10 20:41:58.527 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.4 (9E17)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x90256b9e __kill + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x902cdec2 raise + 26
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x902dd47f abort + 73
3 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x948f9005 0x948b1000 + 294917
4 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x948f710c _gxx_personalityv0 + 1108
5 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x948f714b std::terminate() + 29
6 libstdc++.6.dylib 0x948f7261 _cxathrow + 101
7 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x00005a11 start + 14545
8 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x00005a39 start + 14585
9 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x000e6be5 0x1000 + 941029
10 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x00003fcd start + 7821
11 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x0000374a start + 5642
12 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f241aa -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKey:] + 250
13 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f51d2a -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) valueForKeyPath:] + 474
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x953a3cd4 -[NSBinder _valueForKeyPath:ofObject:mode:raisesForNotApplicableKeys:] + 876
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x953a38dc -[NSBinder valueForBinding:resolveMarkersToPlaceholders:] + 192
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x956e07bb -[NSObjectDetailBinder refreshDetailContent] + 96
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x953a2e77 -[NSBinder _performConnectionEstablishedRefresh] + 79
18 com.apple.AppKit 0x9539b0e8 -[NSObject(NSKeyValueBindingCreation) bind:toObject:withKeyPath:options:] + 744
19 com.apple.AppKit 0x953d771e -[NSNibBindingConnector establishConnection] + 166
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x951aeaa4 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:topLevelObjects:] + 1211
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x951a4e12 loadNib + 264
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x951a4774 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 946
23 com.apple.AppKit 0x951a43b7 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibFile:externalNameTable:withZone:] + 171
24 com.apple.AppKit 0x951a42f5 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) loadNibNamed:owner:] + 391
25 com.apple.AppKit 0x951a3fa4 NSApplicationMain + 434
26 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x000028d1 start + 1937
27 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x00002242 start + 258
28 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x00002169 start + 41
Thread 1:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x901e8506 semaphoretimedwait_signaltrap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9021a84f pthread_condwait + 1244
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x9021c0d3 pthreadcond_timedwait_relativenp + 47
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f46e8c -[NSCondition waitUntilDate:] + 236
4 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f46ca0 -[NSConditionLock lockWhenCondition:beforeDate:] + 144
5 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f46c05 -[NSConditionLock lockWhenCondition:] + 69
6 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x0002720d devtech_private::ZString::ZString(char const*, unsigned long, devtech::EncodingInfo const*) + 339
7 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x0001d215 devtech::ZString::GetCString(char*, unsigned long, bool, devtech::EncodingInfo*) const + 2485
8 ....versioncueCS3.VCStatusMenu 0x00025738 devtech::ZString::GetCString(char*, unsigned long, bool, devtech::EncodingInfo*) const + 36568
9 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f00f1d -[NSThread main] + 45
10 com.apple.Foundation 0x92f00ac4 _NSThread__main_ + 308
11 libSystem.B.dylib 0x902196f5 pthreadstart + 321
12 libSystem.B.dylib 0x902195b2 thread_start + 34
Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x902dd43f ecx: 0xbffff39c edx: 0x90256b9e
edi: 0x00115500 esi: 0xa0025578 ebp: 0xbffff3b8 esp: 0xbffff39c
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00000286 eip: 0x90256b9e cs: 0x00000007
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0xffe173cc
I suppose it would make sense that when items like com.apple.Foudation and com.apple.AppKit go wrong, the problems would spread system-wide.

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