ILife install fails every time on 1 of my Macs

Just one! tried installing 1st on my older iMac ('08 -24") and got almost done and said "install FAILED, try again or contact Apple". Well haven't had time during normal hours to do that so I thought I'd try here first.
2-4th attempts all did the same thing. So I put it on my brand new 21.5" iMac. No problems at all (even all the ones people are having - just can't connect to facebook so far & emailing *****, for everyone). whew! Fresh install of 10.6.4 with all software upgrades too.
Thought, okay I have a 2.5 year old MacBook Pro, install it on that. No problems at all.
Put it back in the original iMac, repaired permissions, restarted several times....still FAILS at the installation process. There is VERY little installed on this iMac, I only have 4k photos on it. (my new one has 45k!!!!)
any idea??
thanks!!

The same thing happened to me, but it failed very early in the installation phase.
I read the post by Kent Arnsbarger about making a copy with Toast and everything working out fine. That pointed to a disk error instead of bad install software. So, I ejected the disk and looked at the business side of it under a table lamp. I noticed that there were a couple of lines and dots of some material that was left on the disk from the manufacturing process. I got a damp towel and cleaned the disk off, popped it back into the drive, and everything installed beautifully.
This may not be a solution for you guys, but it worked for me.
Good luck.

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