Adobe Photoshop cs4 freezes at "Preparing to Install..." on Mac OS X 10.6

I am trying to install Adobe Photoshop CS4 for the first time (it's not an upgrade) from the trying versión of adobe.com on Mac OS X 10.6 (all the latest updates are installed). The Mac install is also pretty fresh, although I have installed a few things. The CS4 install starts and I get a "Preparing to Install..." message. But, that's it. It's stuck there indefinitely.
I have disable my antivirus software, tried to use AdobeSupportAdvisor (but it doesn't seem to be able to determine that an install has been attempted), and been working through everything on
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/407/kb407428.html
to no avail. I get the same behavior no matter what I try.
Any suggestions are very much appreciated.

While I understand you may have valid reasons for using it, I still have to ask, why on earth are you running antivirus on OSX? I know there are a few people here who love trying to convince the rest of the world that there actually is such a thing as a Mac virus, and that the threat is very real that unprotected Macs could be vulnerable, but I've been using OS X since 10.0 (early in 2002) and I've never seen or been affected by a virus on any of seven Macs I've owned.
I've tested McAfee (Virex), Norton, and Trend Micro products for Mac only to find that they are either cumbersome and bothersome to the point that they ruin the user experience of a truly user friendly OS, or they interfered with things I was trying to do or needed to do with other software.
The end result is that I do not use antivirus of any kind on my Mac and to date I've yet to have a single problem because of that choice.
I'd wager a good guess that the root of your problems is some background process of your antivirus trying to san the installer or stop the installation altogether because the installer is newer than a virus database file, which most companies don't make a serious priority of updating for Mac since they know as well as most of us that there aren't any Mac viruses out there just waiting to destroy an OS that isn't Windows.

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ApologetX wrote:
"downloaded Photoshop CS4 here and i tried to install as trial (30 days), Error: "Please insert Photoshop C4 into drive E:/ to continue instalation" what's wrong? What should I do? To install free trial? Tks"
@ ApologetX
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