Trying to install on E:, but still wants 648Mb on C: which is full.

I purchased Photoshop elements 8 yesterday and am trying to install.
I have a PC with a 30Gb SSD (C:) as the windows 7 (64bit) system drive and a 1.5Tb (E:) drive for all the applications.
My program files and program files (x86) folders are on E: and registry points to this location, which most installers use.
My 30Gb SSD is close to full with just Windows 7 and a few extras.
So far all other programs I have installed have happily worked using this system installing my E: drive.
Unfortunately not Photoshop Elements 8.  After Selecting the install location as the E: drive, it will not install as it says it still needs 684Mb on my C: drive (which I don't have and cannot get) and also 746Mb on E: which is not a problem as I have plenty of space their.
After 1 hour on the phone to Adobe the only suggetion they have is to make the space on C: drive.  This is frustrating, and surely will become more of an issue as people move to SSD's as their main drive.
So I am hoping someone here may have already found a solution to this problem (though have not found a thread on this issue).
Thanks,
Peter.

I have a similar issue with Creative Suite Premium 1.0 install as my OS is on the E drive - it would install and act as if succesful but there was no software installed when it completed.  For some reason it was looking to C and not producing an error when it didn't find it.  As a work around I tried the following and it worked.
1. Used Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management to make sure my cd rom drive was something other than C: and that no other drives were on C:  (Never change Operating System Drive letter)
2. Typed Run> cmd.exe to bring up the command prompt.
3. In the command prompt typed: subst.exe C: E:\
If in doubt about how to use the dos command type subst.exe /?
4. I then ran the installer and it installed all the files on the virtual C drive (which is really the E drive)
5. After install finished go back to command prompt and type: subst.exe C: /D
This deletes the virtual "C" drive referencing the E drive.  I did this before running any software.
I have a feeling it automatically mapped everything to the %ProgramFiles% location at the time of the install - but was definately looking for C: to do the initial install - the above tricked it into thinking it was going on C:

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