Bought and paid for CS4 Premium, Acrobat Pro not accepting serial #

My Acrobat Pro application, part of the CS4 Design Premium, will not accept the same serial I used for my other Adobe applications.
Any solutions beyond tossing two hours of my life in a phone call to Adobe India Customer Service? I have had one good experience using Adobe CS out of five, but really it takes hours to get someone who is helpful. Adobe needs to address this brutal customer in need situation.
Apple buys Adobe, everything is fixed.
Solutions? Beyond waiting for Jobs to mount a take over?

I should add, I did install the complete CS4 Design Premium package in mid November 09. Worked flawlessly, until yesterday that is.
After some hours on the phone with Adobe customer service in India, finally the serial question was solved for all applications BUT Acrobat Pro. The tech said the serial number issue was caused by unknown forces. Odd, Adobe has a special number for serials not being accepted. It is a 1-800 number, I used it. I believe it is an Adobe made issue to keep pirated software out of the loop.
The tech said he would call me back in thirty minutes to confirm all applications were in perfect working order. I played with the entire group and AP was the dog of the bunch.
The tech never called back to check on me. That was nearly 24 hours ago. I anticipated this would be the poor result from Adobe.
I suspect I will need to devote another hour or so in Adobe Hell India Zone for a fix. The customer service is something which turns me off all Adobe products. When I find replacements for the software I will jump at the chance.

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