USB install for 10.8.3 has 10.7

Very strange I am trying to install 10.3.8 on a new disk installed on my computer. To do this I created a USB install disk by taking the InstallESD.dmg disk image out of the Mountain Lion Installer Package and mounting it on a USB stick. When I try and do an install from the stick it says it is installing 10.7. Why 10.7? Does 10.7 have to be installed and then one must do updates?
Also rather than a clean install it only offers me a choice of installing with a timecapsule or reinstalling.
Would appreciate any info as to why this is happening.
I have a Mac with a i7 processor build 8.1
Mike

Assuming that you meant 10.8.3 in lieu of 10.3.8, the correct installer package for 10.8.3 should be version 1.3.22. Check the info for yours:
Does 10.7 have to be installed and then one must do updates?
No

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These questions are really best in the Microsoft Office Forums.
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"KentFSmith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> Thank you, Grimlock (-Grimlock?-)
>
> Through a google search I encountered a very close suggestion, and the
> poster said they couldn't remember the name of a MS utility but that
> there was one that would break out the individual MSIs from the Office
> 2007 setup.exe bundle. The dependent app appears to be a simple and
> possibly elegant solution, but without a good way to break out the MSIs
> I don't see how to do anything other than with a config.xml ('Config.xml
> file in the 2007 Office system'
> (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc179195.aspx)).
>
> Do you know of that utility and where I can find it?
>
> There is a lot of history here now of just doing the individual
> applications. Everyone gets Word and Excel, but much fewer get
> PowerPoint and Access. All other reasons aside, a compelling one is the
> reduced number of help calls to the Help Desk here. Occasionally we
> also just run the whole Office install for someone who needs some of the
> odd utilities, but that is easily cost-justifiable for us to break them
> out as exceptions. Otherwise, we focus 90% of our support on just Word
> and Excel and it pays off nicely.
>
> If we switch to putting full Office 2007 on all PCs then there may be a
> better approach that include other tools than ZfD, such as the fact that
> we replace 1/3 of all PCs in the organization each year (so that no
> hardware is more than 3 years "behind"). We could put 1/3 of all Office
> 2007 installs into the new PC image. But we still need to support all
> the use of the apps after the install, so ZfD MUST work well, it simply
> MUST work well or we're screwed, to use the vernacular. Also, just
> switching from what we've been doing for years -- single app orientation
> -- means introducing new-ish issues that have to discover and explain to
> our comrades, and to adjust our orientation with unknown future costs.
>
> But that may end up being the simplest adequate solution. And that's
> what I want.
>
> -K
>
> grimlock;1883526 Wrote:
>> Craig Wilson wrote:
>> > You should really focus on #1.
>> > Snapshot is not the way to go.
>> >
>> > Details about what is Not working or what random behavior may help
>> folks.
>> > Ask in the MS forums may help too. dont' mention zenworks.
>> > Just say you are installing as Administrator from a share and getting
>> these
>> > errors.
>> >
>> > While not 100% accurate, it should be good enough to get some good
>> feedback.
>> >
>>
>> Nor is installing 1 app at a time. Install the whole suite, have an
>> icon for each app that runs the exe for that app with a dependency on
>> the another app that points to the installer msi.
>>
>> If any user runs any app, it will run if the executable is there
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>> calls the dependent application (the installer app) and installs it,
>> and
>> then runs it.
>
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