ARD3 wants serial number at every launch

Every time I launch ARD3 it asks for the serial number again. The only thing I could find in the knowledge base was to make sure you're logged in as an admin before registering the software. Well, I'm always logged in as admin, so that's not the problem. The same thing happens on all 3 of my Macs. Any ideas how to get it to hang onto the registration and serial number??
Thanks,
Rich
iMac G5 iSight - not Intel Mac OS X (10.4.7)

had the same problem before..
make sure you are running as Administrator. If you
are using ARD as limited user, you will get that
message everytime because the serial number file does
not have permission to write to the library folder.
login as administrator and it should remember the
serial numbers.
As I said above, I definitely am logged in as an admin, so it's some other problem. Still have not been able to figure it out. Tried full uninstall and re-install. Tried a different serial number. I set up a test admin account and it works fine in that and remembers the serial number. It just won't remember it in my main admin account.
Rich

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