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All, having issues with installing Acrobat 9 Professional on a Windows 7 Enterprise workstation thats going to be used as a baseline build. Downloaded my software from the my Adobe account from licensing.adobe.com, and my license info as well. The software can be installed on an XP machine just fine. With this Windows 7 build I'm working on, I get the "Invalid Serial Number" error. I believe previously there were older versions of Acrobat on this build but I removed them all and cleaned up the registry as well. Could there be something that I'm missing that Acrobat 9 is seeing to bring this error? I was able to install our copy of Acrobat 8 Pro just fine. Other pieces, this machine is not on the network yet, and my copy of Win7 hasn't been activated yet (because of it not being on the network). What else can I check for? It must be seeing something on the machine for it to be popping up with this error. Somebody told me, if a previously licensed Acrobat copy was installed, it could show this message, but I don't see a trace of any file or in the registry. Help!!!

Just to add. This is a volume license of Acrobat 9 Pro. Not part of a CS bundle or anything like that. No other Adobe software installed except for Flash Player.

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