InDesign CS3 install

RE: InDesign CS3 , I am running XP Pro
I am having a problem setting the command line of the Setup.exe to allow me to do a silent unattended install.
My batch reads as follows:
==========================================================
P:
CD InDesign CD3
setup.exe /s /v"/qn /L*v MSIInstallLog.txt USERNAME=\"John Doe\" COMPANYNAME=\"Adobe Systems\" SERIALNUMBER=\"123456789012345678901234\" INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Program Files\Adobe\InDesign CS3\""
===========================================================
Setup.exe seems to ignore all command line parameters.

Domenick,
This is for questions that relate to the suite, not to individual
applications. You might try to repost your question in the ID forum.
Mike

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I feel like I'm beating a dead horse... (no offence to horse lovers out there - it's just an expression)
I'm having trouble performing an silent install of the CS3 suite from a network share on Windows 7. I've read through a number of posts on here, one of which was a 3 page post on this issue where Mac & Win 7 users alike posted failures, successes and how they got there, and another about removing the OS check feature from the application.proxy.xml file (which didn't work for me; unless I did something wrong...?) Unfortunately for me after trying much of what was suggested, I'm still facing a brick wall.
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Condensed Version: http://pastebin.com/eFKpe9wK
Unabridged Version: http://pastebin.com/MQDeQZmF
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[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 INFO
BEGIN Setting requested payload actions
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 DEBUG
Setting action for {AC76BA86-1033-0000-7760-000000000003} Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional (At install, older versions get upgraded) per deployment file.
Setting action for {7BB7F66A-D798-45A3-A383-0727FB1EBF8E} Adobe Flash Video Encoder per deployment file.
Setting action for {abd781e6-d5ca-45aa-a5f7-f64799eb1c04} Adobe Version Cue CS3 Server per deployment file.
Setting action for {00E5C764-9525-44C3-8404-712AD06AE12A} Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 per deployment file.
Setting action for {3BC8460B-085E-47F3-9C62-8FFCBAF11D78} Adobe Flash CS3 per deployment file.
Setting action for {C4519961-AC64-4565-B3AF-9050296B5D5A} Adobe Illustrator CS3 per deployment file.
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 INFO
Selection of payload {C4519961-AC64-4565-B3AF-9050296B5D5A} Adobe Illustrator CS3 is forbidden by the policy.
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 WARN
Error setting action for {C4519961-AC64-4565-B3AF-9050296B5D5A} Adobe Illustrator CS3:
Localization: missing stringID "locPayloadSelectSystemRequirement" for en_US in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\498b43b77cac072081a5692bfc52804\resources\main.xml
system check
The minimum system requirements listed below are needed in order to run Adobe Illustrator CS3 and are not met.
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 and greater
- Windows Vista
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 DEBUG
Setting action for {24D77A7C-E10B-4057-9974-FAB8BFDAC853} Adobe InDesign CS3 per deployment file.
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 INFO
Selection of payload {24D77A7C-E10B-4057-9974-FAB8BFDAC853} Adobe InDesign CS3 is forbidden by the policy.
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 WARN
Error setting action for {24D77A7C-E10B-4057-9974-FAB8BFDAC853} Adobe InDesign CS3:
Localization: missing stringID "locPayloadSelectSystemRequirement" for en_US in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\498b43b77cac072081a5692bfc52804\resources\main.xml
system check
The minimum system requirements listed below are needed in order to run Adobe InDesign CS3 and are not met.
- Windows XP Service Pack 2 and greater
- Windows Vista
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 DEBUG
Setting action for {30C4B843-28DA-466F-AFCA-CB0ED153C826} Adobe Photoshop CS3 per deployment file.
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 INFO
Selection of payload {30C4B843-28DA-466F-AFCA-CB0ED153C826} Adobe Photoshop CS3 is forbidden by the policy.
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 WARN
Error setting action for {30C4B843-28DA-466F-AFCA-CB0ED153C826} Adobe Photoshop CS3:
Localization: missing stringID "locPayloadSelectSystemRequirement" for en_US in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\498b43b77cac072081a5692bfc52804\resources\main.xml
system check
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- Windows XP Service Pack 2 and greater
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[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 DEBUG
Setting action for {7005ECBC-F54B-42FD-81E4-934BC43FA329} Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium per deployment file.
PayloadPolicyNode.SetAction: IY->IY for {7005ECBC-F54B-42FD-81E4-934BC43FA329} Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 INFO
END Setting requested payload actions
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:13 2010 WARN
Some payload actions specified in the deployment file could not be applied.
...snip - snip...
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:17 2010 INFO
Checking bootstrapper progress
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[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:17 2010 FATAL
Exception: Payload actions could not be set. Search the log for "BEGIN Setting requested payload actions" for details.
Exit code: 7
[    9660] Thu Dec 02 07:08:17 2010 INFO
I've got some initial questions that pertain to what's in the log file:
The areas in bold: Since the same install also fails on Windows XP machines, what does this mean exactly?
The areas in italics: Can anyone expand on what that means?
The underlined areas: What 'Policy' is this referring to: Setup's own internal policy (like the OS check) or something else?
Here's what I've done so far:
Went through the 'Run a silent installation of Adobe Creative Suite 3' document
Went through the 'Troubleshoot installation with install logs | CS3, CS4' document
Used the Adobe Support Advisor to go through the logs, but it always says that no problems are found.
Recreated the install & uninstall XML files, twice, via the "setup.exe --record=1" method for each application & the entire suiteNot that I think this is important, but I was never prompted to enter a serial number when creating the .XML files.
Renamed the XML files for each application (e.g.: Photoshop-install.xml; CS3Suite-install.xml; Flash-remove.xml etc.)
Copied the XML files to a common folder on a network share (e.g.: \\path\to\Adobe\Design Premium CS3\Adobe CS3\XMLs)
Created install batch files for each application, including the suite, that install via the following command"\\path\to\Adobe\Design Premium CS3\Adobe CS3\Setup.exe" --mode=silent --deploymentFile="\\path\to\Adobe\Design Premium CS3\Adobe CS3\XMLs\Photoship-install.xml"
Tried the installs with & without the "--skipProcessCheck=1" switch but there's no change.
No applications are running during the installs.
Verified my application.xml.override file was in \\path\to\Adobe\Design Premium CS3\Adobe CS3\payloads\AdobeDesignSuitePremiumen_US_Volume
Verified I didn't have any strange characters in my application.xml.override fileI deleted and manually retyped all double quotes just to be sure.
I noticed that the "installSourcePath" property in the install.xml files created point to a local location rather than, what I would expect to be, the installation source folder where I copied the contents of the DVD to. On a whim I changed it to point to the copied DVD files but that didn't seem to help either so I changed it back.
FROM: <Property name="installSourcePath">C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Installers\498b43b77cac072081a5692bfc52804</Property>
TO: <Property name="installSourcePath">\\path\to\Adobe\Design Premium CS3\Adobe CS3</Property>
Aside from Acrobat Reader 9.4.0, Adobe Flash Player 10 (ActiveX & Plugin) and maybe Shockwave 11, these machines never previously had any other Adobe products installed.
For what its worth, uninstalling Acrobat Reader 9.4.0 doesn't seem to help either. I didn't try removing Flash Player or Shockwave [yet].
Using the install XML files I created via "setup.exe --record=1", when I run installs for the individual applications silently [via batch files] one at a time, all applications install fine except for Illustrator and InDesign: Exit Code 7.
This may further help suggest my application.xml.override file is fine.
Even more interesting is that I get the same error on Windows XP and Windows 7 machines alike. (See the image below taken from an XP machine; the same happens on Windows 7 machines so it doesn't appear this problem is OS specific.)
Other than removing Flash Player, Shockwave and ripping out our Anti-Virus solution (Sophos), which is going to be difficult, is there anything I've missed?
Anyone have suggestions on why Illustrator and InDesign don't install?

I spoke with Adobe Support today and was directed to this support article:
CPSID_84332 - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/843/cpsid_84332.html
Although this article speaks to CS5 installations, even though I thought I made it clear that I was working with CS3, I decided to give it a shot anyway.
The first comment passively suggests troubleshooting [all] "install errors using Creative Suite 5 install logs", which links you to CPSID_84451 - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/844/cpsid_84451.html. But again, its CS3 I'm having trouble with and I've already linked, what I believe to be, a more appropriate CS3 [and CS4] log troubleshooting document in my first post.
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I did as instructed in the troubleshooting documentation but it didn't work.
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Step 2 is to perform a repair installation of the Windows Installer. (FYI: Windows 7 ships with 5.0, my version is 5.0.7600.16385, and for the record there doesn't seem to be a redistributable download available at this time.) I can't use this as part of my silent installation package because it calls you to run `sfc /scannow` which is time consuming and, if something is found, often requires a reboot. Fortunately for me, "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations."
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AIR isn't part of the CS3 DVD, it has to be downloaded & installed silently (via -silent -eulaAccepted if you don't have the redistributable package); this was done but didn't help.
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s c perks Oct 14, 2014 6:04 AM
1. I have InDesign CS3, which I bought about 6 years ago, and installed on my MacBook Pro. I have now got a new Mac Pro running OS 10.9.5 Mavericks. When I bought the machine I asked Apple if I would be able to install my InDesign and they said there would be no problem. But it will not install. The intsllation fails every time near the end. It installs Bridge and one other components, both of which it calls shared components. But InDesign is not installed.
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Message was edited by: dnetmike

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