ILife DVD won't install on G4

I have iPhoto2 on my 5 year-old G4, and use iPhoto4 on my 2004 iBook (it came with it). I would like to have the same version of iPhoto on both machines, and sorry Apple, but I cannot afford 2 copies of iLife5 right now. So, I bought a copy of iLife on eBay from someone who had upgraded to iLife5. When I try to install from the DVD, I get this message:
iLife cannot be installed on this computer.
This installation cannot proceed because one of the following applications is running:
     GarageBand
     iTunes
     iPhoto
     iMovie
     iDVD
Please quit these apps before installation.
Nothing is running. I restarted, but same result. When I try to install from the CD, it tells me to install from the DVD. What do I do now? I have upgraded to iTunes5, but I still have the version of iMovie that came with Panther, and neither is running when I try to install. I do have iPhoto Buddy. My G4 meets the RAM and MHz requirements on the iLife box.
Please help; I really just need to install iPhoto4, I don't care about the other apps.

ITunes Helper is running.
Log out of your user account, and log back in again, but immediately press and hold the shift key until the Finder has loaded. Then try your installation again.

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