Canon printer/scanners and Tiger

The new Canon MP 170 came with Mac install disc - but I have been unable to install the Driver for the printer or scanner from it. It was possible to install from the disc on a G5 (I have a G4 with 704 MB ram) so there is light in the tunnel. I note from previous thread problems with Canon scanner and Tiger so
I have used disc utility to repair priviledges and downloaded a driver MP 170 from the Canon site - with the same (non) install results - I was unable to install it. I previously tried a Canon MP 150 and had the same problem with the disc supplied except I was able to download a driver from Canon and install it - the printer responded to 'print' and produced a page without a spot of ink on it.
The installation goes slowly showing 0% progress as the bar procedes in the other window then gets stuck at the rolling 'barber pole' stage and does not respond to finder/ force quit.
I have reinstalled combo 10.4.5 and tried again with the same results.
Grateful for ideas and suggestions
Silsonman

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Sounds like your installer program has some serious corruption in the preferences, or something similar. Backup your data:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
Attempt to create a new administrative user in Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Accounts and login there to attempt the installation. If it doesn't work there, then you've narrowed the problem to the two non-user specific Library folders. Let us know whether you get that far, and then we can help further.
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