Can't uninstall/reinstall Photoshop - startup.exe shuts down

I've tried every proposed solution I could find, including the regsvr32 jscript.dll thing, running in XP SP2 mode (I'm in Vista), running in admin mode, running at the C:\ root, and putting the install files in an .iso, mounting it in a disk emulator, but I just can't uninstall or reinstall the Photoshop CS3 demo I installed a few days ago (which won't work at all - something about a "catastrophic installation failure" or somesuch). In all my experience with hundreds of different pieces of software, I've never encountered such a complete and total failure to work - and this from Adobe no less... What's going on?

i am sorry i can not answer your question. but i posted a topic on a similar problem. i can not uninstal or reinstall the trial either, after something went wrong after a day...can anyone help us?

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