Trouble installing PSE 8 on imac

Question

  I've been trying for three days to install PSE8 on my iMac - no luck.  The installation bars go to about 95% of the installation, then the program quits and the disc is ejected.  The message says "Failed Installation."  Error type 2.   I tried removing other Adobe products -  still can't install PSE8.  I've followed the suggestions made on another post - no better.  I've contacted Adobe support , and have been told that the incident report has been escalated to another group of technicians.  I haven't heard back from them. 
I think that there must be something about PSE8 that isn't compatible with Mac OS 10.6.1.  I certainly hope that the problem can be fixed, or this may be the last Adobe product I'll ever purchase.
Terry

Answer 1

Everyone really should have a bootable external available.  External hard drives are cheap enough today.
All computer hard drives will fail.  The only question is when.  Each of my two external hard drives has a full, bootable, duplicate copy of ALL of my laptop computer files - the operating system and all applications and all of my work.   I update the backup of the operating system and applications once a month.  I update all of my work every two hours.
When my internal hard drive eventually fails, I'll just reboot from my external hard drive.  Lost time - five minutes. 
Every Monday, I go to Bank of America's safety deposit vault and leave there the external hard drive I’ve been using all week.  I then take home the external hard drive that has been sitting in that safety deposit box all week.  If my house burns down - or if there is a robbery - the worst that can happen is that I'll lose one week's work.  I can live with that.
I really don’t need the security of a safety deposit box.  It also costs me about $600 a year to rent this box.  When I was working, I would take my home backup DVDs to the office and store them there.  I also would take my office backup DVDs to my home and store them there.  Since I’ve retired, I really don’t have an offsite location to use, so I use a bank safety deposit box.  It’s expensive overkill, but it works.
Ironically, the most stable and readable long-term storage medium is writing your work onto paper with ink.  The Dead Sea scrolls were created that way 1,800 years ago - and are perfectly legible.  I have ten-year-old disks that essentially are unreadable.  Being paranoid will insure that your work remains readable as computer technologies change.
I know I'm paranoid, but am I paranoid enough?  (Who said that?)
I never thought of creating a new admin user.  I didn't think of the problem as being that far upstream.
Remember:  computers make our lives easier.
Bob Leahy
Chief Executive Loafer
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