Photoshop Elements 12 DVD contains no setup.exe file, just setup.xml files, won't install

Newly opened boxed copy of Photoshop Elements 12 won't install on new installation of Win 8.1.  Turned off virus checking (which shouldn't be necessary), Searched files on DVD, unzipping payload files, including the temporary Premier software, and there are on setup.exe files anywhere.  Tried viewing XML files with browser, which readers xml.  Don't have time to investigate Adobe install procedure, which appears pretty sophisticated (I've written a few years ago).  Any clues?

Thanks mytaxsite. Yes, I bought it at Costco, and of course have the serial number on the box.  I'm a Microsoft developer, and searched the DVD, copying the contents to a hard drive and unzipping the "payload" files.  I understand folder viewing filters and found lots of setup.xml files, which I could have used, with some difficulty, to see where Adobe wanted to put things.  But Adobe knows its installation procedure better than I ever will, and so tried to get tech support.  I even have full Photoshop CS5 on an adjacent machine, used by my daughter, but wanted to have basic editing functionality on a machine I use for film scanning. 
I never allow anything to be installed without a dialog, whether from my own or a removable storage device.  The  Windows loader apparently didn't detect autoloading functionality and only offered me the options of viewing files and trying to find multimedia, if I recall (which, since it was irrelevant, I didn't note precisely). I just wanted to see the files anyway, at which point I was puzzled by the lack of setup.exe.  I did, as Adobe suggested, disable my virus scanning software, but not my firewall. It made no difference, and I expected none.  Though I've found no legitimate software that couldn't be loaded with virus scanning enabled. 
I suspect your suggestion that I download fresh software from Adobe is the correct one.  It is what I expected Adobe Technical support to suggest. Having some confidence in this newish machine, with its newish, and almost unused, BluRay/DVD burner, and my care handling DVDs, I was guessing at some xml-based installation procedure that I might need to install.  Few Costco customers, not in the software business would know where to look, so I'm curious about how Adobe could ship something lacking the old-fashioned setup.exe, twenty+ year old technology based on the DOS shell?  On the other hand, if there are new standards for installation scripts, I would like to know what they are using. 

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