I have almost exactly the same problem. I cannot install Photoshop Elements 8 om my new Macbokk Pro with Snow Leoperd.

Some info:

Snow Leopard is upgraded from Tiger

I have uninstalled all my Adobe products from the Mac (using Adobe installer)

I start the setup.app, enter my serial number, and it keeps hanging on the "preparing to install". Nothing happens.

Also: the "install"-button in the setup turn "white" and "click-able" almost immidiately after starting the install. There is no progress bar, nothing.

Please help!

I also could not get PSE8 to install on SL 10.6.1, which was upgraded from Leopard and had never had any previous versions of PSE or PS installed. Having inserted the DVD, entered the serial number and run the setup application, the installer froze at about 90% of the way through inspecting the system. After several attempts (during one of which Disk Utility had to be used to eject the PSE DVD) I decided to see if there were any files to clean up from the previous attempts, and then try once more. I found an uninstall folder and clicked the only icon there, which actually started an INSTALLATION rather than an uninstallation. This time, there was a message to insert the DVD, which I did. The installation then started, ran to completion in about fifteen minutes, and finally displayed a product registration screen. PSE 8 now seems to run as expected.

Hope this helps someone.

Also, I just ran disk utility on the photoshop disc and it says: "The volume Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 was found to be corrupt and needs to be repaired."

I do not have any Adobe products installed on my computer at all. I upgraded from Tiger to Snow Leopard last month.

I'm clicking on the URL to access the net meeting and starts running Adobe Connect Pro but nothing else happens.

I can get PSE 8 installed on my Snow Leopard machine. HOWEVER I cannot install Bridge. I get a file corrupted message when I try to run Bridge. I did have PSE 6 installed which I removed, but Bridge CS3 is still on the machine. The Adobe apps that I have install are Lightroom 3 Beta and Adobe Air. For now I can use Lightroom 3 to Catalogue my photos, but that is not a fix.

Thanks for any help

Ankush--you appear to be the man who is solving all the pse8 installation problems.  I upgraded to snow leopard on my imac. I bought the pse8 program and inserted the disc and nothing happened.  I clicked on the icon. It asked for my password and nothing happened.  What should I do?  Thanks

Hi Ankush!

I have the same problem. I bought my imac 2 weeks ago and at the same time I bought  Elements 8.0 for Mac. I have not installed any programs - this is the first. After 95% of the installation it stops and " Error 2" causes the problem. I have tried for a week now and I´m not getting any wiser. Can you help me?

Terry

I have a new iMac 21.5 screen with OSX Snow Leopard.  I installed IWork and turbo tax with no problem.  Nothing else. 

PSE 8 installation fails after about 80% installation just as install for PSE 8 starts. I've spent hours on the phone with Adobe and they blame it on OSX   Error analysis states:   "Uncaught JavaScript exception: Unable to read Adobe file version for path /Library/Fonts/MinionPro-Bold.otf  Apple techs have also tried."   The latest communications from Adobe instructs me on validating fonts.  We have also tried  CS3 Clean Script since the install failed several times. Case # is 0181442609.    Nothing works and Apple techs are still researching.  Any suggestions from an Adobe professional?  I am new to the Mac environment so any complicated actions may require some "hand holding".

Thanks to all!

Doc

I also could not get PSE8 to install on SL 10.6.1, which was upgraded from Leopard and had never had any previous versions of PSE or PS installed

I had the same problem and Ankush helped me resolve.   In addition to getting "error code 2", you have the capability to run a more specific error code report.  I forget where you click on the adobe error page, but there is a provision for getting more information on the error code.  Mine indicated a problem with the font, "prominion bold.otf."   I ran the font validation, which did not identify any issues.  I then inactivated that font in font book, but that did not help either. Then Ankush advised me to "remove" the font from font book and save it on the desk top.  I did that and it worked. 

Good luck

Doc

Thanks Ankush.  Very clear but it didn't work.    This is what I got from Terminal:

Last login: Mon Mar 15 09:41:50 on console

Macintosh-6:~ ScottLukas$ sudo /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Installers/R2/Setup.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup --installerParent=/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Installers/3b1331aad15bdbfd433fca85c1cf8bc

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss

or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your

typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:

Begin Adobe Setup

UI mode: Full GUI

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'

  what():  Invalid path passed to FileSystemPath constructor.

Abort trap

Macintosh-6:~ ScottLukas$

My problem is that is doesn't get past "Preparing to install."  Same workaround?

Help!

Scott

Just tried Ankush's Terminal workaround.

Deleted the items suggested in the adobe folder in app support folder.

Don't remember the rest.

Scott

I went into the installers file as you suggested and there were many logs.  I deleted them all.  I ran Terminal again.  Same error.  Hmmmm.

Here are the logs.  I hope this is what you are looking for.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 8.0 03-16-2010.log

Uninstall Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 8.0.0.0 03-16-2010.log.gz