Upgrade to CS4 with Clean Install of Mac OS

Hello. Hope I can find the answer here. I purchased the upgrade to CS4 as I had CS3 installed on my MacBook Pro. I made backup copies of the two install DVDs by creating a .dmg file and then burning to DVDs. So far so good -- I thought. I decided to do a clean install of Snow Leopard on my MBP and wiped the drive and reinstalled. Everything has gone well and all my other apps have been installed and are running great. I then proceeded to use my backup DVDs od CS4, made as .dmgs of the original DVDs. I get as far as the license code entry and it will not accept the license code. I have tried numerous times and even had someone else read and enter the code. Do I have to have CS3 installed first? Did I make a bad copy of the original DVDs? Do I have to install as a Trial and then enter the license key later?
[EDIT] -- I wonder -- the original DVDs are probably double layer DVDs so the image is larger than would fit on a single layer DVD right? I bet that when I burned to DVD via BURN FOLDER it did not warn me (or I didn't see it). Is this possible? If so, I guess I better buy some Dual Layer DVDS :-)
Any suggestions/advice would be helpful. I will try to install from the original DVDs tonight and see if they work.
Thanks!!
Message was edited by: mdrdsr

Have you tried installing from the original DVDs?
Personally I wouldn't put Snow Leopard on my computer until Apple fixes all the problems with it. Also my Adobe apps are always the first thing I install after a fresh install of the OS not the last. I never want to have some other application interfere with the installs. One more thing you might want to keep in mind people are having problems installing CS4 from the original media in SL.

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