Application manager ask for serial no

I payed my subscription for Creative Cloud on 1. June and downloaded Photoshop Extended and InDesign.
Every time I start either program Application Manager starts with the message that the program is a trial version and I need to licence it. When I try to do so by inserting the serial no that I find under "My products and services/Creative Cloud" on adobe.com, I get the message that the serial no doesn't match.
Why? What do I have to do to register the programs within Creative Cloud?
Sincerely
Truls Nord

Yes I know… and I have done that, and done that, and done that… Every time when I have used the "Licence this Software" and logged in with my Adobe account details, I am asked to fill in a serial no. I fill in the only serial I have (Serial for Creative Cloud, according to my account at Adobe), and I get the message that the serial is wrong.
It shouldn't be like this, no, but it is.
Why did I pay for this when it doesn't work?!
I have now unistalled PS and try to download a new trial through Adobe Download Assistant (not through Application Manager), as is recommended in this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4401858#4401858
After having downloaded the .dmg, the Assistant have now been extracting the file for more than 30 mins…
It's night here in Stockholm, I have an important deadline tomorrow (I need PS!), don't want to stay up much longer to look at the message: "Extracting… this may take a while" so I go to bet and hope it has been extracted during the night.
Adobe has created some great tools, but right now I am SO sorry that there aren't any real options to PS.
Frustrated!!!!
4 jun 2012 kl. 22:45 skrev David__B:
Re: Application manager ask for serial no
created by David__B in Adobe Creative Cloud - View the full discussion
Trial installed products like Photoshop Extended CS6 and InDesign CS6 shouldn't need a serial number to be included with CCM, you should just need to log in with your Adobe ID that you use for you subscription. There generally is a "License This Software" button you would use.
-Dave
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