Install Acrobat only with Design Premium cs3 installer

I work at a school district that has a school that purchased a bunch of licences for Design Premium CS3. Howerver, many of the labs have decided that they only want Adobe Acrobat installed, and none of the other CS3 applications.
I have successfully created a install.xml file for adobe acrobat, however, there are still some cs3 apps that get deployed with it, such as Adobe Bridge, Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit, adobe device central, adobe stock photos, & Adobe Extend Manager.
If I try running the acroPro.msi directly from the payloads folder, the install wizard runs, but doesn't accept my Design Suite CS3 serial key.
Does anyone know how to get Acrobat 8 to be installed without the other CS3 apps? Thanks

There are certain components that get installed with the suite. I don't believe there's anything you can do about that without hacking the installer....something I wouldn't recommend given how poor the CS3 installers were to begin with.
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