Copy the entire Adobe CS3 software up to a share drive.

Run Setup.exe with –record=1 option run through the install. Copy the 2 files it creates to the same directory as the setup.exe.  Rename them to install.xml and remove.xml.

Create your payload file copy and paste the code below into and notepad and named to “application.xml.override“.  Remember to enter your Serial Number.
serialnumber
Suppress
Suppress
Suppress

Then dump that override file into the payloads folder in the folder that ends with  _US_volume

Create your command line for the install
setup.exe –mode=silent –deploymentFile=”:install.xml”

CS3 should install silently with no issues.  Exit code 0 means everything installed ok if you get an exit code 7 rerun threw these steps.