Re-installation of Acrobat fails for allegedly wrong serial number

Hi.
I have problems re-installing Acrobat 8 (CS3) on Windows 7 64bit, the program claims a wrong serial number. By mistake of course, since I use the original DVD. The history seems to be important.
History: I installed CS3 years ago, including Acrobat 8, and it ran smoothly all the time. Spring this years, I migrated to Windows 7, still everything was fine.
Last week I installed a trial version of FrameMaker 12; Creative Cloud was installed also, though I didn't want to. Some days later I missed the Acrobat icon, looked for the folder "Acrobat 8.0" and found it quite empty. And found a new folder "Acrobat 11.0" including acrodist.exe but no Acrobat 11.
To get it running again, I re-installed Acrobat 8 from the CS3 DVD. Worked o.k., but entering the serial number (and pressing "Activate") leads to a message "Invalid Serial Number". What? How can this be?
Well, o.k. Acrobat 8 is not up-to-date, but I want to use my stuff. Anyone knows what I can do?
Thanks,
Guido

After all, I got it fixed:
I uninstalled Acrobat and re-installed it (both via CS installer). I thought, that should have been the same as repairing, but obviously, it isn't as easy.

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