How To Validate Photoshop's Activation Number?

Please Help -
I have Adobe Photoshop CS5 loaded on my computer.  The product I own was purchased outright and I have the orinional CD's with the software (it was not a downloaded trial that was later activated).  I have only loaded this software on one of my PC's as my secondary PC would not have the humph to operate Photoshop and its memory an dprocessor needs.  I am running th esoftware (Photoshop CS5) on a windows based machine with Windows 7 Home Edition and my machined maxed out with RAM. 
I originally loaded this software about a year ago.  Last month or there abouts Photoshop told me via an error message that I had the software loaed on more than the maximun number of computers and that I'd have to deactivate a computer for the software to run for more than 30 days.  At that, I called Adobe support and they basically added an additional computer for me.  That worked for awhile but then the same message came up again.  This time, I uninstalled the software and re-installed.  This worked for about 50 days - maybe more.  Then, this morning I get the message again (thi swas th e50 or so day mark).  Could not get through to Adobe with long wait times (both in their online chat and via phone).  Decided to not leave a message for a call-back as I am very busy and can not easily stop what I am doing and my computer is not with me. 
So, any thoughts on how I might get this fixed?  Anyone else ever have this situation? 
Hopefully someone can help.
Doyle

Hi Doyle, you posted your help request to the forum for photoshop.com, and online portal site (not a forum for Photoshop CS).  I'll move this for you.

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