Migration Assistant--Transfer an individual application only?

I have two computers--one a MacBook Pro running 10.6.8 and another a MacBook Air running 10.7.
I have Adobe CS3 on the MacPro and wanted to transfer it to the MacAir.
However, the Mac Air is already set up and I have already used Migration Assistant to set it up, but did not transfer the Applications.
So now I want to transfer only Adobe CS3 to the Mac Air, but no other files.
This is because the MacAir will not let me install CS3 because it is a PPC app
My workaround idea is to try to transfer it through Migration Assistant without transferring my entire Application folder
Any way I can do that?
Many thanks in advance for your help

Not sure about that, seems to want to work for Photoshop CS3, but I don't want to re-install it to prove the point:
It also looks like that it can be installed by just dragging the Photoshop folder to the Applications folder:

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