Wacom intuos5 driver not installing on MacBook Pro 2009 ML

Hi,
I recently bought a new Wacom graphics tablet - intuos 5touch. Very expensive and supposedly very good. But I cannot install this on my MacBook Pro 13inch 2009 running mountain lion 10.8.2. I have the latest driver fromwacom and the installation process runs all the way through to 'validating packages' and then fails for no given reason. On Console there are a long list of errors but not sure if these are for the installation or other reasons. I have deleted and reloaded the driver and I have cleared my hard drive and clean installed mountain lion from the apple store with a time machine backup. I am extremely frustrated. I have been using my macbookpro for 3 years with no real problems but the latest os releases seem to be causing everything to run slow or not work. I have checked the hd for errors and repaired everything which needs doing. Does anyone have any suggestions? I cannot afford to replace my mac, it was expensive enough and should really last longer than 3 years.
Any help gratefully received
thanks
Helen

Ok, this is my latest update. Having spent 1.5 hours in the apple store having a full diagnostic check done - nothing obviously wrong - I have done the following:
Replaced the old drive with a new ssd. Added 4gb RAM to give a total of 8Gb. Done a full reinstall of mountain lion by download and NOT restored from time machine.
The Apple tech suggested that I either had a bad drive or there was a software conflict somewhere. I restored from my time machine backup onto the new drive and still couldn't install, so that told me it was software not hardware that was causing the problem. I then erased my new drive and downloaded mountain lion from the app store from scratch and reinstalled. Before doing anything else I downloaded the driver from wacom and - hey presto - it installed! Halleluia!
The conclusion is that I had either a corrupt file or setting somewhere which was causing a conflict with wacom and not allowing installation. If your disk is ok then I suggest you clone your hard drive to time machine or other backup, erase the hard drive, reinstall mountain lion from disk or download and then before doing anything else install wacom's driver. If this installs then you need to decide what to restore from your backup - the apple tech suggested not restoring settings and users as these areas are where corruptions can occur.
Tedious but it works, and my wacom intuos 5 is now working! I hope it's worth it!
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