Adobe Application Manager wants my serial number again

Hi,
I have the CS6 Master collection (old school, not the creative cloud) installed on my Mac already for one year. Now, out of the blue, Adobe Application Manager pop up's since a couple of days on my desktop and asks me for the serial number: after filling it, the serial number will not be accepted and AAM just decides that CS6 will run as try out for the next thirty days...
It is the right serial number and my CS6 is registered (I can see it on my Adobe page/profile with the same s.n.), so how to stop this?
Thanx for your advice.
Sergio

I have exactly the same situation after having used another startup disk of my MacPro. I then started up from the disk with Master Collection again and I have the situation described above. The chatbox is not available at this moment.

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