How to install Photoshop/Acrobat/etc on Windows 7

Question

re: Photoshop CS4, Acrobat 7
I'm posting this just in case I stumbled onto something that is not posted here already.  I spent a few hours searching across the Internet for a solution so I'm guessing it's not widely known.
I was of course disappointed to find there was no upgrade path from XP to Windows 7 so I sucked it up and did a clean install.  However the Adobe apps all failed install for various reasons.  I simply could not run the setup program.   A little investigative work seems to point to Adobe installers having difficulty dealing with modified user locations, e.g. "my documents" "my pictures" "my videos" "my music" and so on.  so I tried again this time installing the Adobe apps before modifying contents and pointers associated with the "my" folder locations and BOOM, that resolved the setup issue for Photoshop and Acrobat.
Obviously there's something that needs to be addressed on the Windows 7 end here but in the meantime I hope this helps
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Answer 1

I use roaming profiles, so I always install to the default locations.  However I'm actually referring to the locations and contents of the user's data and their symbolic links.  It doesn't seem like it would matter, hence my difficulty in resolving the problem, but it did.  I can reproduce the error.  If there are links in the contents of any of the my document location and their repositories or if those locations are actually somewhere else (e.g. network locations with CSC) then the setup programs fail.
It wouldn't seem to have anything relevant to do with the software installation, but it did.
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