Install Illustrator CS2 on Machine w/ CS3 Suite?

Hi, we have one computer that has the full CS3 suite installed on it only. It is running Leopard from a clean install.
We just found out that Illustrator dropped support for AutoCad files (that's just great!) in CS3, so we need to install a version of just Illustrator CS2 on this machine for compatibility.
All of our CS2 suites were upgrades (so was our CS3 suite). When we go to install using the CS2 install disk, we enter our previous CS1 serial number when it asks (since it is was an upgrade). But when we get to a screen to select components, ONLY Photoshop is available as an option. Everything else is grayed out.
- How can we install JUST Illustrator CS2 on a machine with CS3?
THANKS!

IIRC, you're going to need to uninstall CS3 before installing CS2.
Check the readme files. I think it may be covered there.
Bob

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