Creative Suite CS5.5 applications will no longer initialise

I have been using Adobe Creative Suite (Design Standard) CS5.5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard via monthly subscription since last August with no problems. On Saturday I was working on a project using InDesign and PhotoShop, then on Sunday morning I tried to start work again but found that non of the Creative Suite applications (InDesign, PhotoShop and Illustrator) will launch. All freeze soon after the "Initialising" splash screen appears. These screens (together with the watch time symbol) remain like that until I force quit them.  Bridge and Acrobat still work, as do all other applications.   I have no idea how to solve this problem and can't understand what has caused it.
Adobe Support have been completely unhelpful and have left me completely in the lurch.
If anybody can offer any advice, I would be extremely grateful!  I have a big deadline coming up so urgently need to fix this!

http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-network-issues.html
Mylenium

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