"Application has moved" problem again

I am on a G5 PowerMac 2GHz, now running OS X 10.5.5, and there are some things about the new OS I really like, such as the print dialogues and the Dock Stacks. Which raises a previously-encountered problem: I made the mistake of placing my Adobe CS3 apps in a stack. Result: the old "Application has moved" dialogue box, which I ran into once before, when I tried to move Adobe CS3 into an Applications/subfolder AFTER installation. It can be done with absolutely EVERY OTHER APPLICATION ON EARTH EXCEPT ADOBE CS3.
There. Having said that, I seem to recall that there is a straightforward solution to the problem? A little more complicated than trashing the prefs, but not by much?

Simple solution... do not move Adobe applications from their original installation location.
If you wish, use aliases to configure a stack or subfolder.

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