CS4 Design Standard, installation from disc fails

Installation disc spins after clicking autorun, the nothing happens. While "nothing" happens, 25% of CPU is takenup with this activity.
Windows 7 on brand new Vaio Z laptop, plenty of space, plenty of muscle. I have previously installed (and removed) on PC with no problems.
Suggestions?

2 hours to do what?
Copy contents to hard drive, or install after the copy is done and setup is started?
I will GUESS that a Windows Explorer of everything on a DVD to a hard drive location should take no more than 15-20 minutes... maybe less, if you have a fast DVD drive or maybe more if you have an old, slow drive
2 hours to install from DVD may be a bit long... but again, not knowing the speed of your drive, there is no way to tell if that "estimate" is going to be accurate or not
Installing from a hard drive location, after the copy from DVD is done, will be "somewhat" faster than directly from a DVD, due to the faster read speed of a hard drive... but do remember there is a LOT going on to install a large program
Also, the installer "estimate" is just that... an estimate... so if you really care, write down the start time and then the end time and come back to let us know the actual amount of time and a list of everything you installed

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