Adobe CS3 License and Reinstall Issue

After a while of using Adobe Design Suite CS3 I got an unexpected error 'Licensing for this product has stopped working'. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the Suite, but installation for Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator keeps failing. Only Acrobat and Shared Components installs.
Any help would be appreciated.

Uninstall and try one more time. There is a bug in teh CS3 licensing system where it will only work after the 2nd reinstall. If that doesn't fix it, manually delete the caps.db (C:\Program Files\Common files\Adobe\caps) and run the drill again. It will complain that the caps.db is damaged the first time, so you need to run this twice as well...
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Here are a few snippets that get posted often when people are
having
problems installing:
See if this TechNote helps:
Error "Some problems occurred during installation",
"Component install
failed", or "Shared components failed to install" (Adobe
Creative Suite 3)
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401401
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http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401551
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http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401090
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news:f52jh5$5f2$[email protected]..
> The title pretty much sums it up. Basically, whenever I
run setup.exe of
> any of
> the CS3 applications on my system (photoshop CS3,
dreamweaver CS3.etc) the
> setup loads and then nothing happens. The setup.exe
process is in the
> memory
> but it doesn't do anything and doesn't return any errors
at all. This
> happens
> both when I try to install and/or uninstall CS3
applications. I have a
> feeling
> it's to do with some sort of licensing issue as I
received an error in
> Dreamweaver saying to reinstall the application due to a
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<SystemRequirementsJSON>[
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,"Need64Bit":"0"}},"Server2003":{"Exclude":true},"Vista":{"Require":true}}},
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