Adobe CS3 Licensing Issue

I have Vista Business, Adobe CS3 with student licensing. It has worked great for three months. Now I'm back in school and I get an error that says "Licensing for this product has stopped working:". It is registered.
I've followed all of the fixes listed here and it still will not work. I have emailed support and they gave me the same fixes as here. Someone must know how to fix it, it's their software.
I tried to uninstall but all I get is the Install Wizard. I went through it once, inserted the disk and waited patiently. I have rebooted each and every time I've made changes. NOTHING WORKS!. I can't even unistall it, that is strange.
Does someone have another method of getting this going again. I have assignments due and it has really caused me a lot of stress.
Thanks for the help,
Paul

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
More tech notes to check out:
Error "Installing Adobe Photoshop CS3 results in a conflict
with Adobe
Photoshop CS3" when you install Creative Suite 3 or Photoshop
CS3
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401551
Remove Creative Suite 3 and CS3 point products from Windows
XP, Windows
Vista and Mac OS
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401090
If these doesn't help, please open an official Adobe
Technical Support case
and we can help you get the trial version installed:
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/
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"Sloth_Boy" <[email protected]> wrote in
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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
licensing issue.

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