Contribute CS5 Silent Install

Has anyone succeeded in creating a silent install for Contribute CS5? I've tried both the Adobe Application Manager Enterprise Addition tool and the setup executable response file parameter referenced in CPSID_82946 and KB405451 respectively.
After generating the MSI install with the AAMEA tool, running the silent install looks likes it going to work and after 5 or 10 minutes puts most of the application in place. But then, the process backs out everything it did and provides no reason in log files other than to say that the installation failed.
Running the set-up.exe with the --record=1 parameter installs the application fine but doesn't generate either the install.xml or the uninstall.xml file that it's supposed to generate.
Adobe support says they don't provide support.
Any help would be appreciated.

We have failed in this as well, and have now given up. I am attempting all manual installs (I have over 160 users), and am not exactly happy. We had it all ready to go to deploy CS4, but got delayed and when we did it, it failed on 3 out of 4 installs. Most with different failures. So I decided to go with CS5 since it was now out and we had the licensing for it, but we couldn't get the installs to work at all over the network. Back to manual. I have customizations on the Welcome.dwt and tasks and need to ensure those are deployed as well, so we are trying manual installs, and I have to give the install to the technicians to do. Even this isn't working well. Need better directions on setting this up for mass deployment.

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Further to this I have isolated the problem...
When running the MSI under an normal administrator account is installs fine. However when running it either as a startup script/policy install, or via a cmd prompt running as the 'SYSTEM' account the installation fails with the error code 1603.
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