Can't uninstall Photoshop CS

after discovering that users will now have to download Photoshop CS in order to activate rather than use the CDs, the solution includes removing the failed install of Photoshop CS. Now my Windows XP system is saying that there is any error using the remove tool in Control Panel
The screen says the setupdll/setupdll papp and some other gobbeldy **** about closing programs, etc. ,
tried a search for setupdll and found a file referred to in windows\system32 file, but not going further until some tech here advises

This also happened to me last night; my Photoshop CS lost its activation while trying to fix a Windows OS issue, and I found that it could not be reactivated due to the Adobe server shutdown for older products.
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/creative-suite-2-activation-end-life.htm l
I followed the link to the activation fix that would take me to CS2 version, however, I wanted to remove the CS version first. It would not uninstall using the regular Windows XP unistaller, reporting an error connecting to internet (probably needed code related to lost server activation ??).
For the heck of it, I inserted the original Photoshop CS software CD, assuming there was an uninstall option (there isn't). It finished its install thing, I re-entered the key code, it asked for activation, but couldn't complete for previously known activation support issue. I went back to Windows unistaller, and it worked this time, removing Photoshop CS without any issue ... the re-install from the CD must have overwritten a DLL or something flagged that had prevented the first unistall attempt. Good luck!

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