Can't uninstall CS5 suite! Pleaes help.

I was having trouble with Fireworks crashing when I tried to save files.  After reading posts on the Adobe Fireworks forum, I trashed the Adobe Applications Spport files in my user Library, because many users said this fixed the problem.  Now, when I try to open Fireworks or other Adobe programs, I get this message: Configuration error: please uninstall and reinstall the product.  So, I read Adobe's instructions for uninstalling, which said to "Navigate to /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers. Double-click the Adobe Creative Suite product uninstaller" I see an uninstaller for CS4 (which I still haven't uninstalled). However, there is no icon that says "CS5 uninstaller."  So, I click on the Adobe CS5 Design Premium folder, and I get this message: "The alias Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium can’t be opened because the original item can’t be found." I reinstalled the original Adobe application support files using Time Machine, and they now appear to be in the Library/Application Support folder, but I just can't seem to find a way to uninstall the CS5 suite so that I can reinstall it.  I want to use the Adobe Cleaner Tool, which I plan to download. Can I use that tool to uninstall programs?  I'm backing up my hard drive first.  PLEASE HELP!  I'm lost without my Adobe suite!

Since you have trashed the uninstall related information so the uninstaller will not work. You can however follow any of the following steps to re-install CS5 suite -
1) Install the product, or
2) first run Adobe Cleaner Tool and then Install the product
You may use Adobe Cleaner Tool in this case but for normal un-installation always run the uninstaller from '/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers'.

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