“No Software”

After my recent painful experience of doing a fresh install of Leopard, I’m going through the paces of reinstalling and reactivating my software. I’d already gotten AppZapper, Quicktime Pro and Final Cut Studio 2 reinstalled with no hitch whatsoever. Now it was time for iWork. After popping in the install DVD and clicking through the first couple of screens, I was presented with this error message:

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That’s right – “The installer could not install the software because there was no software found to install.”

Am I missing something? As I said before – I did a brand new install of Leopard and wiped everything. There’s no reference to iWork anywhere in my system, let alone the actual software. I had split the software with a buddy who had installed it (with some minor issues – he actually had to put in the key after a reboot to get it to work correctly) successfully just minutes before my attempt. And even after a couple of ejections and a reboot, the message remains. I’m not incredibly peeved about this, just baffled by the error message. I can’t really think of an instance where this wording would make sense. I would think if there was an issue with the install disk or if the software already existed, it would say as much. But this just looks like it fell out of Windows.

So as I scratch my head, I’m curious – are there any other iWork users out there with a similar issue?

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