CS3 No Longer Installs - Asks for Disc

I have CS3 (Master Collection) installed on a Win 7 Home Premium machine.  I didn't originally install Dreamweaver and am now trying to go back and do so.  Setup runs like normal and asks me which components to add and which to reinstall.  After verifying the adds/reinstalls it prompts me to inster Master Collection D1 into drive D:\ and won't continue.
I don't understand what has happened and I don't want to try uninstalling for fear that I won't be able to reinstall.  I didn't have to do anything special to get it to install originally (didn't need to run as admin or use compatibility mode, for instance).  This is the download version, bought from Adobe's store so I do not have a disc (and D: is my hard drive anyway).  I even redownloaded the 3GB file from Adobe yesterday but that didn't help.  Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.  Thanks.
Brad

First of all, I appreciate the response.
This is a new laptop (in March, at least) and the only Adobe software I have installed is CS3 (download version from my hard drive) and Reader X, again from a download.  I haven't installed anything from a CD/DVD so I don't know how or why it would have changed install paths (the D: drive IS where I installed CS3 from originally anyway).  Even so, I don't have a disc and if I juggle drive letters around, what is the root that I should use for a virtual drive?  The CS3 file extracts to an Adobe CS3 folder on the desktop (Adobe CS3 \ Master Collection \ Adobe CS3 \ ....).  I don't know "where/what" the setup program is going to want to find as far as what contents should comprise the virtual disc.  Any help with that info?
I hate to risk uninstalling everything only to find I can't get anything back without an OS reinstall, which I don't have time to do right now.  For now, most of the suite is installed, I just need to add Dreamweaver (and, for the time being, I've installed DW8 from an earlier CS so I have a temp workaround).

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