Terminal pops up when installing programs

I'm working with downloaded software (LR3), and when I double click on the icon, the terminal pops up and I can't go any further with the install.  I tried dragging to applications folder, and file turns from a .dmg to an alias file.  Double clicking on that within applications makes terminal pop up again.
I've tried installing iwork from a cd, but get the same result as above.
I'm working on an imac with new upgraded Lion.

No. But you may have installed something that is causing that to happen or you may have opened the Terminal and left it open when you shutdown the computer. You may have put something into Login Items in your Users & Groups preferences that launches the Terminal at startup.

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