Reinstalling software is definitely NOT fun. Even worse is when the DVD drive is a fickle piece of crap. I had to boot up my Macbook as a firewire drive so I could use it’s DVD drive. My external DVD-RAM is USB, so I couldn’t even use that.
Bright side is, my Mac is now running smoothly. Aside from the DVD-RAM issues, that is.
The crappy side is that Adobe CS4 won’t install on my computer. I can’t find the installer on the DVDs. What kind of idiot can’t install software from the installation DVD?! Me, it seems. My only consolation so far is the fact that Adobe has been widely being panned as having crappy installers on their software. That and the fact that it installs a lot of stuff all over the computer. That would explain the slow down I got when I installed the software the first time. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.