Installing Illustrator CS3

If you do not own the CS3 Suite, installing Illustrator can be a major problem:
If you are going to load multiple programs (In my case CS3 programs Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, you must install Illustrator FIRST or it will not install! After three days of attempted installation, I foulnd the secret:
1) DELETE ALL Adobe programs from your hard drive (ALL!!!!)
2) Open the updated AdobeExtendedScriptToolkit 2.0.1 download but do not run
3) Install Illustrator CS3
4) After it installs, open Illustrator 13.0.0 and select updater 13.0.1 from CS3; immediately close Illustrator when download begins
5) Update CS3 13.0.2 from open Illustrator 13.0.1; immediately close Illustrator when download begins (disregard "Fails" notice if it appears as it does load correctly)
6) Reload Photoshop, InDesign, etc.
NOTE: If Photoshop and/or InDesign is installed BEFORE installing Illustrator, the program will crash when Ilustrator's orange "splash" page appears.
To put it bluntly, this is the worst install I have ever had with an Adobe program. I will greatly question an further updates after this (you may have lost a customer who has used your products since the first versions of Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign!) Yuk!!!

My InDesign is crashing, even after reinstall - I Have CR2.
And my Adobe Updater appears to be disfunctional.
Any work arounds?
r'and

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