Installing CS3 Upgrade On New Laptop That's Not Had Full Install

Frustrated!
Got a new laptop for Christmas. OS is Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
My original full is Version 5, which has been upgraded to 5.5 - 6 - 7 - CS2 & CS3.
CS3 upgrade is currently installed on my desktop machine running Window XP SP2.
I'm trying to install on my new laptop as my 2nd install, but the installation keeps failing!
With each attemt I expect to be asked to stick the original install disc (version 5) to verify but that does not happen, it never asks for it!
I have tried both Run as administatror and also in XP compatibility mode with zero results.
Am I going to need to install the full version 5 and then go through installing upgrades until I get to CS3? I'm trying to avoid all that time if possible!

Near as I can tell you haven't named one specific error message in all your posts above.
Could you be a little more specific about what's going wrong when you say:
Sapphire Studios wrote:
I'm trying to install on my new laptop as my 2nd install, but the installation keeps failing!
You've leapt to the conclusion that it's a problem with the software being an upgrade; I'd like to confirm that, that's all.
By the way, there were problems with even Photoshop CS5 working on some AMD processors up until an update was released (well after the initial release of PS CS5)...  Not sure if this has anything to do with what you're doing, but if even more modern versions of Photoshop didn't get along with AMD processors there could be a compatibility issue...  Did Photoshop CS3 specifically claim compatibility with the type of AMD processor you have, or is there too much of a time difference between them?
-Noel

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