CS4 Design Premium key works off DVD but not Harddrive

I have an Educational Site license for Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium.
If I put in the DVD's and run setup.exe it "checks" my Serial Key and accepts it.
If I copy the 2 DVD's to the D:\Server share and run setup.exe based on the network deployment instructions it says my Serial Key isn't Valid???
(all copied from F:) "E:\Installs\AdobeMacromedia\Adobe Creative Suite 4\Adobe CS4\Setup.exe " --record=1 Gives a Serial Key isn't Valid
(DVD Drive) F:\Adobe CS4\Setup.exe --record=1 works fine.
I am a little baffled.
Does anyone know where it looks to validate the serial number?
I do have a Site license for CS3 Web that is installed find and Adobe CS5 Standard and they both worked just fine.
We are upgrading our web portion to CS4 but keeping the CS5 for Illustrator/Indesign and Photoshop.
It doesn't seem to matter though even if I have nothing installed on the workstation.

You may still have remnants of Photoshop on your computer. Use the Adobe Cleaner tool, then try again:
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/cs5-cleaner-tool-installation-problems.html

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I just bought the student Edition of the CS4 Desgin premium package.
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The module found no solutions to report for the selected log file.
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(2)     Memory is relatively cheap and will enhance performance more than almost any other resource you can buy today. In conjunction with that, go for either Vista 64-bit or Windows 7 64-bit (stay away from XP 64-bit like the plague). Why? Even though only Photoshop currently has a 64-bit version that can take advantage of 64-bit processing on its own, the 64-bit OS supports more than 3GB of memory and as such allowing larger amounts of real memory, you avoid the tremendous amount of disk thrashing that goes on as part of virtual memory paging operations when a whole bunch of applications running concurrently are competing for a small amount of real memory. I personally recommend 8 GB of memory in conjunction with Windows 64-bit as a minimum, even on new notebook systems!
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(4)     You don't need a smoking video card (those things that cost upwards of $500 to $1000) to support the Adobe Creative Suite unless you are doing extensive video work or playing high performance video games in your spare time. Typically, a mid-range video card that supports very high resolution (such as 2560x1600) will be fine. What you don't want, either on a desktop system or a notebook computer, is an “integrated display adapter” that shares memory with the CPU. Typically, such video support appears on low end desktop and/or notebook computers - avoid like the plague!
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(6)     No preference on motherboards. That decision is generally made for you if you order a system from a major vendor. I personally am not into build-it-yourself systems. Not that I can't build those, but quite frankly, my own time is worth something and my biggest problem is having enough time to do everything I want. I get no particular pleasure in DIY computer building.
More if you give me more specifics about the usage profiles for the systems you will need to purchase.
          - Dov

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Bob:
I did take you advice and give Adobe a call, it didn't work at first but with the following I was able to get the software installed...
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Shutdown/restart
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