Photoshop (CS4) has disappeared off my i-Mac!

It happened a couple of weeks ago. Just got round to re-installing it (from disk), it goes through the steps, ejects disk and says it has been installed on my computer, yet when you search for it, it isn't there! It's happened twice now, can anyone help?
Many thanks.

yet when you search for it, it isn't there!
Macintosh’s searches can be close to useless sometimes.
Have you tried using the uninstaller before re-installing?
Apart from that: Stuff simply disappearing from a drive seems like an unlikely or at least rare occurrence – is there any possibility that you or someone else messed around where they should not have an accidentally deleted the application or files/folders related to it?

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