CS3 Design Premium in Windows 7

Hi,
Bought a new computer with Windows 7.
I lost my "CS3 Design Premium for Windows" installation disk.
So, I downloaded the installation file from Adobe site, extracted it & burned in a DVD as how it supposed be in the Adobe supplied DVD.
When I run the "setup.exe", the wizard appears.
I selected Acrobat Professional & Dreamweaver to install in default location "C:\Program Files\Adobe".
Next screen, it displays the components to be installed & I clicked the next button.
A pop up window displays that "Please insert Adobe CS3 Design Premium disk".
I've gone through another thread in this forum & tried to install all the listed applications of Adobe CS3.
Still no luck.
I need to install Acrobat in the said computer.
Please advise!
Thanks in advance!

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