After effects CS3 locks up at Initializing User Interface

I am doing an install for a school lab and they are requesting both CS3 and CS4. Is that possible under Mac OS 10.5? I have managed to get everything to work except After effects CS3. They didn't need CS4 after effects so i removed that and CS3 after effects still doesn't work. I removed the prefrerences in the users Library folder and allowed after effects to re-create it and I am still unable to load the program It Freazes at Initializing User interface. I have tried uninstalling CS4 and CS3 After effects still didn't work. I just uninstalled CS3 as well and re-installed it again and i am still getting the same error. Any suggestions? I might Remove CS3 again and use the script that is on the net to remove all CS3 data.

What Macs are we talking about? There are some issues with some iMac models that seem to occur with specific configurations of said iMacs. A regular occurence is some 2007/2008 series models with ATI cards not launching AE at all or going into a freeze. Users have reported that completely re-installing OSX fixed these issues, so I can only assume it's a flaw in the factory disk image used to pre-format and pre-configure those machines upon delivery. Other than that I'm not aware of a specific cause, but who knows. If you can provide more info, I'm sure something can be clearly made out as the culprit.
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Error signature
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On 9/21/09 1:22 AM, "matt connolly"> wrote:
The following information was submitted on the Software Feature Request and Bug Report Form for After Effects
Name                       : Matt Connolly
Email Address              : <deleted>
Company/Institution        : THQ Studio Australia
Feature Request/Bug Report : Bug Report
Product                    : After Effects
Product Version            : CS3 8.0.2
Browser                    : Safari
Web Server                 :
Application Server         :
Database                   :
Operating System           : Windows XP
OS version                 : SP3
HTTPREFERRER               : https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Feedback Report            : ******BUG******
ExternalObjects not available in ExtendScriptToolkit when Adobe After Effects is the exedcution target. ExternalObject objects can be created when the ExtendScript Toolkit application is the execution target.
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