CS3 Web Premium is missing pieces + crazzzy updater

Question

Hello, I just got my CS3 Web Premium.
No demos installed on my machine before it, so it's all brand new (new computer too).
I ran the DVD, and the installer said there were problems. It said VersionCue had not been installed.
I tried the suite, it seemed to work.
But...
-There was no Adobe Bridge. I tried to evoke it from the apps, no way. It isn't anywhere, not even a folder on the computer.
-Also Photo Pack wasn't there: the icon is in Applications Folder, but double-click and nothing is launched.
-And then, this crazy Adobe Udpater. It's just a message that pops up every single time I open an app from the Suite. It doesn't do anything, doesn't check, connect... no preferences to change, nothing. Just a message and an OK button to send it away.
I had to put it on the desktop to stop it from driving me crazy.
I then uninstalled (following carefully the instructions from the Adobe Support site to perform a clean uninstall), and re-installed. This time, no error message...
But same situation. No Bridge. No Photo Pack. And crazy Updater still there.
I wonder how many things can be wrong that I haven't seen yet... !
Does anyone know what this can be? thank you for the kind attention,
Josh
CS3 Web Preminum, MacBook Pro, Leopard.

Answer 1

Hello to whoever is reading.
Especially people who have the CS3 Web Premium + Acrobat 9 box.
I don't know if this is right or not, whether I'm talking nonsense, but here is my experience, exactly as it happened (except it took days :)
I recently had great problems installing CS3 Web Premium.
In two words, the installer (a DVD) would NOT install a number of parts.
It would not install Bridge, Version Cue, StockPhotos. And the Adobe Updater had some very obvious problems too, because it didn't check anything, all it did was pop up every time I opened an app from the suite.
Basically, I had an incomplete and malfunctioning version of CS3.
So, after a number of attempts which unfortunately spanned across a few days, including performing a clean un-install as suggested by the Adobe site, and a talk with Adobe Customer Support, who told me I had to install by creating a new admin account on my computer (note: a brand new MacBookPro, very unlikely that it would have any seriously bad configuration problems), here is where the unexpected solution popped up.
The fourth time I re-installed, and before going through installing with a different admin, as Support suggested, I tried something I hadn't tried the previous times. Just for the heck of it.
I DID NOT follow the instructions that came in the box that said to uncheck the installation of Acrobat 8. The note said you had to do that with the Acrobat 9 DVD installer, but later.
This time, I just let CS3 install with Acrobat 8 as it would by default.
And, hey! It installed perfectly! All components, and all working as should.
Now... I don't know if it's coincidence, if I missed out on noticing something else.
I'm am illustrator and cartoonist, so I know NOTHING about installers and the sort.
I'm not assuming this is a bug. This is just what happened to me.
So if anybody out there is experiencing the same frustrating thing, well, what the... it's worth the try, ain't it?
Try it... let CS3 install WITH Acrobat 8, and maybe it'll go smooth.
It did for me.
Bye, best, & hope this was useful.
Josh