Failed to install CS3 on Vista - Component Install Failed

I am unable to install Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard on Windows Vista 32-bit OS.
Short version:
When I insert the installation CD and go to auto play, it says that Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional is all ready installed and greys it out, making it impossible to select as a choice.  Funny thing is, Adobe Acrobat 8 shouldn't be installed - more details on that debacle below.  Then when I try to install the rest, Shared Components installs successfully but the rest of the programs (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Version Cue) don't and cite "Component install failed".
The Beginning:
This all started with the pesky "Licensing for this product has stopped working" etc.  So I went and tried all the solutions Adobe provided about FlexNet.  Those didn't work.  So I sucked it up and went to uninstall and install.
When I went to install, things seemed to be fine, shared components were installed and it started installing InDesign.  Then, my computer decided to randomly shut down during Adobe installation.
Upon restart, I tried installing again and got the Component install failed error messages for everything but Shared Components.  So then I tried going to Add/Remove programs to uninstall Creative Suite.
That seemed to remove everything except Acrobat 8.  The add/remove window did not list Acrobat 8 as an option to uninstall.  So I went to Adobe's solution about how to uninstall Acrobat 8.  Ran the C5 Cleaner Tool.  Then went to cmd to del AcroIEHelper, Acro PDF, pdfshell etc.  Was told "Access denied".  So then I went to manually delete from Program Files, took ownership of what files I could and deleted everything except Acrobat\Resource\CMap.  These files appear to be read-only.  Attempting to delete says "You need permission to perform this action.  Try again".
I attempted to install ignoring that there's little pieces of Acrobat 8 still on the computer.  Again, got component install failed.
I think the problem is that I can't clean up the last remnants of the previous install of CS 3, which Adobe lists as a potential cause for the Component install failure.
All ready tried solutions:
C5 Cleaner
Safe Mode
Programs to delete files : Eraser, CCleaner
Disabling permissions (still get "you need permission)
What else can I try to fix this?
Thank you!
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Thank you Bob.  Good to know.  I'm getting a tech guy to come in tomorrow to take a stab at it.  If he finds anything, I will update this post in case it helps out others in similar cases.

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