"Setup Mac OS" is a no-show

I just bought a new iMac and I'm networking it to my G5. One problem I keep hitting on both computers is: when I try to install apps, e.g., Adobe CS3, the packages don't auto-install and I have to install them manually. Each app comes with a poop sheet claiming that I can install it by going to the root drive and opening "Setup Mac OS" . Baloney. Neither the G5 nor the iMac has such a file, or app, on any drive, root or otherwise. I've tried "find", I've inspected all the drives, and it aint there. What's the deal? can it be downloaded? I'm getting tired of pulling these discs apart.

Birck Cox wrote:
By "Auto-install" I am referring to an app which lands on the desktop, then pops open its own installer, leaving the user to merely drag an icon to the Applications folder. And, in fact, I think I have experienced a Mac applet actually installing itself.
There are a few. There isn't any consistency in installers for Mac software. As you mention, some installers involve an application that can be dragged into the Applications folder. Others have an installer application, which is run to do the installation.
Be that as it may, the exact text from my Adobe CS3 disks is: "# Mac:
# Insert the DVD in your drive, and follow the on-screen instructions. If the installer does not launch automatically, navigate to the application folder found at the root level on your disk and double-click Setup Mac OS®) to start the installation process.
I've never seen an installer "launch automatically" on a Mac. I've also never seen anything that would support the latter part of those instructions. In my opinion whoever wrote those instructions is clueless.
# If you downloaded the software from the web, open the folder, navigate to the application folder, double-click Setup, and then follow the on-screen instructions."
Those instructions sound good.
Yesterday I installed Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 for Mac. Inserting the disc resulted in a disc volume on the Desktop but nothing else. In my reply on this thread
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=11315703
I describe what I had to do to run the installer.

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