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I'm just about out of ideas as to how to get CS3 to work correctly. Briefly, this is the story:
1. CS3 worked originally when I bought last year on a Mac Pro
2. In the last couple of months, the updater gave me a message that "The installation process encountered a problem...." CS3 still worked but I then noticed that the PDFmaker in Word or the Adobe PDF 8.0 print driver would not work: job would just queue and then disappear with no error message.
3. I figured something must be corrupted so today I ran the uninstaller for Acrobat and then the uninstaller for CS3. I then run the original CS3 installer disk and the program installed ok.
4. I then ran the updater and got the same message. The following components could not update:
Photoshop 10.0.1, Camera Raw 4.4.1 U, AIR update....S3 profess, Bridge CS3 2.1.1 Update, Start Meeting 10.1, Flash lite 3 Update for Device.., Asset Services 3.1.0 update, Illustrator CS3 13.0.1 update.
5. I still have the problem with the Adobe PDF 8.0 print driver not working (or PDFmaker).
6. Curiously, CS3 didn't ask me for my serial no. when I reinstalled so there must be a hidden file or files that did not get uninstalled.
7. Finally, IS THERE SOME WAY TO GET THIS TO WORK SHORT OF BUYING A NEW MAC or wiping the hard disk?
8. Running current version of OS 10.5.3
Thanks, I'm really not sure how to fix this and apparently one needs to pay for phone tech support?

I was able to fix the Adobe PDF 8.0 printer driver by running the updater and ONLY updating acrobat to v8.1.2. Apparently, the updater wasn't working for this if I just ran the auto-update.
Other problem with updater failing is not fixed and others have reported previously. I deleted everything containing "Adobe" in the name (except fonts) in the libraries after uninstalling CS3. I will only run the updater when I need a specific update in the future since the "update all" option is not reliable.
Updater is rather disappointing since I have not had this kind of trouble with an Adobe product in the past.

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