Installing Adobe CS from iMac to MacBook Air... NOT!

Got my new MBA yesterday - beautiful. Remote Disk? Not so beautiful. I'm trying to install a new version of Adobe CS on my MBA using Remote Disk from drive on my iMac.
1. Installed Remote Disk software on my iMac.
2. Enabled DVD or CD sharing in the Sharing Preferences pane on the iMac.
3. Unchecked "Ask me before allowing others to use my DVD drive." because when it was checked my iMac never asked permission.
4. Inserted Adobe CS disk into iMac's DVD drive.
5. Clicked Remote Disk under Devices on my MBA.
6. It shows an icon of an Apple monitor and under that the Adobe CS DVD - iMac says "Connected".
7. Double click on the Adove CS DVD on my MBA it says "Connecting..."
8. Dialogue box comes up saying "The operation cannot be completed because the original item for "Adove CS3" cannot be found."
Why can't it be found? It show it right there in front of my on the MBA?
This is crazy. It's pretty obvious the the one thing people would be nervous about when buying a MBA is the lack of an optical drive and whether the implementation of Remote Disk would actually work. You'd think that would be the one part of this whole thing that would be bombproof. Nope.
Can anyone help? This beautiful machine soooo thin and light but it's kinda useless without software.
Thanks!

I've heard of Office working with remote disk so I'm not sure why you would have problems with that also.
If it's any justification, you need the SuperDrive to play DVDs or rip CDs. Remote disk can't do those at all, it's only really for installation of software.
Have you looked at Apple's technote in case there is anything there that helps?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307141

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