MX 2004 re-install problem, won't run!!!!!!!!

I have had Director MX 2004 installed on another computer. I
used PClink to transfer my files to a new computer. I can not run
ANY Macromedia product. I uninstalled all Macromedia products and
tried to re-install Director MX 2004. I get a message that the
install was successful but when I try to run Director nothing
happens, no errors, just no Director program.

Thanks for your quick response...
I already followed that link. I downloaded the iMac Superdrive update and installed it. And that Superdrive Firmware update is only for G5's and eMac's.
I thought it might be a bad disc, so I went to the Apple store to exchange my disc for a new one. And the new one doesn't work either.
So, I'm still at a dead end. Any other ideas?

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When I restarted, I got the initial OS X pale grey screen with the dark grey Apple logo in the centre, with the spinning circle thing below, but after a minute or so, I could hear the DVD stop spinning in the drive, and a few seconds later the dark grey Apple logo changed into a dark grey "circle with a line through it" logo, with the normal circle thing still spinning below. This is how things stayed for many minutes, so I just restarted with the external drive off, and eventually got back to a normal 9.2.2 boot-up.
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Initially, I suspected that these Panther discs might be machine-specific, rather than the retail/generic version, because of the first CD being greyed-out in the Startup Disk control panel, but then the error dialogue that matched the one I got when I tried the Tiger DVD makes me think that my Panther CDs might be generic after all. Examining the first CD on my own Mac, it appears to be generic, but I'm not 100% sure, as the CDs are copies and as such don't have the usual identifying information on the labels. There are no machine-specific files that I can find on the first CD, which is dated January 9th 2004.
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The problem is now solved, but I'm not sure how I managed it, unfortunately.
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