Cs3 trials won't install

Hi All
I am using cs2 on Leopard 10.5.4 so wanted to try out the cs3 trials
When I try to install them it just installs the shared components and then gives me a message saying it failed to install the apps.
Is anyone else having this problem? i can't see any help with the trial downloads to give me any suggestions on what to do.
Any suggestions?
Cheers

You can try to do the CS Clean Script:
Mike

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