Installation Problems - "Applications Damaged Or Incomplete"

Hello! I would greatly appreciate some help on this matter. I recently purchased CS4 Web Premium and began installing it on my Macbook Pro. After the first disk was finished I inserted the second disk and walked away for 15 minutes. I came back to see the login screen so I assumed the installation was complete and that my computer automatically restarted. However, when I look in my Applications I see that critical items are missing (like Photoshop Extended) and although some icons/folders are there the programs won't open (a pop-up appears saying that the application is "damaged or incomplete". What should I do? Please help me!

Is it really possible to delete applications for good that easy though?
If you run as an admin user, yes you can delete many apps without any "Are you sure?" type warnings. Some operations require you to confirm them by entering an admin name & password, even if you are logged in as admin.
You can also move apps to non-standard locations or rename them, which sometimes makes it seem that they are deleted when they are not. If you can remember the steps you took before you noticed that the apps went missing, it may shed a clue about this.

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