HP Printer Drivers Not installing

Hi, Im currently running a iMac as my desktop computer downstairs. We recently replaced our 7 year old printer that we had hooked up to the computer because it randomly decided to stop working on us. The new printer that we hooked up to the computer was an HP Photosmart C5180 All-in-One printer. We tried installing the drivers for the computer by downloading them from the HP website but when we did that we would get 1/2 way through the install process and finally get to the "install" screen and when we hit the install button, nothing would happen. I then found the CD for the printer and tried installing the drivers via this method. This didn't work also because "we needed administrator privileges". I am the administrator on this computer and there is one other account on the computer that is also an administrator and I have tried installing it on that user also but not to any luck.
Any ideas on how to get this to work would be greatly appreciated.

Happy holidays Jardnle,
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
Try installing again.

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