CS4 Design standard Silent Install:  Start Menu Items

Greetings!
I've got everything working for a silent install of CS4 (Design Standard).  However, there seems to be an issue with creating the Start Menu Folders.
My first try, I asked for all the shortcuts to be placed in a folder called "AdobeCS4."  Short and sweet.  After running the install, it created THREE folders.  The first, just called "Adobe" had the Media Player shortcut in it.  The second was the one that I'd asked for, AdobeCS4, and had the rest of the items in it, except for three.  The Third folder was named "Adobe Design Standard CS4", and had "Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro", Acrobat Distiller 9, and Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2" in it.
So, I re-set the install.xml file to NOT make my custom folder name, but just use the one called 'Adobe'.
However, the acrobat side of things still won't play nice.  It looks like in the "suite.mst" in the Acrobat Payload folder specifically calls for the cumbersome "Adobe Design Standard CS4" folder.  I tried editing that file, and the install of Acrobat failed, so I assume that the files are checked before install to make sure they're not corrupted or something.
Has anyone been able to make this (Acrobat Install) work properly, and have an install NOT bloat the start menu like crazy? How about the Adobe Media Player install?
I've currently got the install working cleanly using a batch file to change some registry values (disable eula, adobe.com, etc), move the shortcuts, and delete the old folder, which works, but is really not how "software of this caliber" should work.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, and hopefully answer!
--IT Drone for Penetrode

Hi there. I don't know the answer to your question, but maybe these docs can help:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/creativesuite/
Kind regards,
Lynn

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