Creative Suite 4 installation freezes and I get a blank installer alert window

I'm trying to upgrade from CS2 to CS4 Design Premium. It goes most of the way through the system profile; starts to load setup and then a blank installer alert window pops up. I'm running system 10.4.11 on a Mac Pro Dual-Core Intel Xeon.

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