Compressor doesn't work/won't install after FCP5 install

We recently "upgraded" one of the G5s in our lab to Final Cut Pro 5 from FCP HD 4.5 (these were both Academic versions if that matters, so it's not really an upgrade, you buy a new license at academic pricing). I don't remember which we did first, but we also upgraded this machine to Tiger at the same time.
The guy that does most of the video work on this machine reported to me that compressor wasn't working. That it would launch and crash, and sure enough it does. So I did some investigating, and the version of Compressor that appears to be installed on the system is 1.2.1, but doesn't Compressor 2 come with Final Cut Pro 5 (or is it just Studio)? I tried to reinstall from the disk and and on the install screen where it lists the packages to install (the 'Custom Install on "Macintosh HD"' screen), Compressor shows up as unchecked, greyed out and with "Skip" in the Action column. I've even tried removing Compressor from the Applications folder and that doesn't seem to make a difference. Is there any way for me to force the installer to install the version of Compressor on the Final Cut Pro 5 disk?
Something seems to be messed up. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
PowerMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

OK, it took some fiddling, but I got Compressor to install correctly. First I tried the instructions Apple has here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93234
but that didn't help.
So then I found this page with a brief article on "Tricks to install Compressor 2 on G3 Mac":
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/archives/jun05/060305.html
Not very descriptive, but I basically had to make a local copy of the Compressor package from the Final Cut Pro Install disk, then go in and remove the InstallerCheck and VolumeCheck files and then manually install that package by itself.
I did a reinstall of FCP5 from the disk for good measure after that, and then a software update. It still says "Skip" for Compressor vs. "Update" for everything else when you are in the FCP installer. Everything seems to be working fine now though.
This seems like a serious problem in Apple's Final Cut Pro 5 installation package (at least for the academic version and whatever sequence of steps got us into this state).

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