ILife won't reinstall after archive

Recently archived system & now iLife will not install. Says error on installation. I have OS 10.3.8 running & have iLife 5 as well as 4, but when I got the error message trying to reinstall 5, I tried 4 & same story. When I try to make a slide show using iPhoto, photos are missing in the slide show, but appear in the thumbnails. iPhoto commands (stop, add music, etc.) while the slide show running do not work, either. iLife 5 is in the applications folder after the archive & I have not deleted the previous systems folder yet, waiting to see if everything works. Done the repair preferences numerous times, ran MacJanitor, too.

This is just an update. After repairing permissions from the OS 10.3 install disk a few more times, I got iTunes 5 & iPhoto 5 to reinstall on the custom install feature. iMovie wouldn't install till I finally dumped the previous system folder (or most of it, anyhow). Two tiny files of 8kb remain. One called "resources" & one called "missingfiles/nib" were still in use, even though they were in the previous system folder. Don't know what they even do. They remain in the trash because they won't leave. Restarted & repaired permissions several more times, but iDVD still wouldn't install, either, until I installed it without the previous themes. Just have the iDVD 5 themes now, which is OK. Haven't tried it out with a slide show yet, but am optimistic.

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