CS3 Design Standard - Unable deactivate on OLD PC in order to activate on NEW PC. Deactivate is not an option under HELP

I have read the guidelines to deactivate CS3 on old PC before being able to re-activate on NEW PC. However in my CS3 there is no 'deactivate' option under HELP. Had chat with Adobe Tech Support, and they confirmed I should uninstall CS3 from old PC and then it could be re-activated on NEW PC. This has now been done - however still same error message, that need to deactivate on old PC (which no longer has CS installed!). Anybody been through same ordeal?

if you see an activation count message when you try to activate cs3, contact adobe support by clicking this link and then clicking 'still need help' as soon as it appears, https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html and request an activation count reset.

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I had CS3 Design Standard on my old comput I deactivated it and downloaded it on my new computer. I opened InDesign and entered my serial number which worked fine. BUT... where is photoshop and illustrator? I downloaded them separately but the serial n

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You placed your incomplete problem statement as the title rather than as the content of your posting and it got cut off.
Your CS3 Design Standard serial number is only valid for the CS3 Design Standard package of software. You cannoit download individual components of it and use the serial number for them. You need to install them thru the Suite.

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Hi!
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It was all perfect until one of the workstations went out of order. OS became so corrupted that we couldn't deactivate the product. Once we got all the mess sorted out, I've downloaded a copy of CS3 form adobe website. But i was unable to activate it due to the fact that we reached the number of activations available. I was offered to contact support. I got in touch with 3 different people and i got three different answers:
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The software is installed and functioning on my new Macbook Pro. When I installed the CS3 software a few days ago, I reached a point where it asked for the serial number. It accepted the number as valid, then took me to an error screen saying “A problem was encountered while trying to send information over the internet.”
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I'm a bit confused...I saw your note above about not working with volume license keys, but I disregarded it out of optimism because it doesn't match my experience.
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