Adobe CS3 and CS4 updater under Snow Leopard issues

Hey everyone -Ive been trying to research this and I have CS4 and CS3 (just photoshop installed) under snow leopard -(clean install) and when I launch the adobe updater on CS3 it just crashes-and on CS4 the updater runs but finds no updates and I know they are out there.
This is all I could find on Adobes Forumns
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2349031#2349031
They talk about changing the permissions of the admin group but you have to be careful or you will mess your machine up -I dont wanna do that.
Is anyone having this problem? Or can anyone help
Matt

You might try creating another user account (testUser) and seeing if those installers will function properly there, under a clean account...

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Jim R.
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:50:27 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Help with opening Adobe Reader and downloading updates
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