Cannot reinstall photoshop cs3 extended on vista

I bought Photoshop PS3 Extended 4/26/07 and have been running it on a Vista PC. I tried to launch it in 4/2011, but it said something about the license not working and to uninstall and re-install.
I uninstalled and have been trying ever since to reinstall. I do install with “Run as Administrator”.
For 8 weeks, I battled with this error from the Event Viewer: Product: Adobe Fonts All -- Error 1907.Could not register font . Verify that you have sufficient permissions to install fonts, and that the system supports this font.
I run the uninstall program after each try, as PS comes up in my program list, but fails to install shared components and the PS3 program.
After trying all the advice from Adobe & Vista support sites (including Adobe's Doc IDs KB401401, KB401488, KB401501, KB402151), I thought it was AGaramondPro-Italic.otf, but no matter how I tried (copying it from my Encore, downloading a new copy, deleting it all together) it wouldn't work. All those support sites said to contact Adobe, but Adobe no longer supports CS3. Finally I installed the trial of Photoshop CS5 and it took care of the font problem.
However, it STILL won't re-install. Event Viewer no longer shows any errors, but when I check the Information messages and the photoshop log files, I see that about 1/3 of the components are not installing, but say: "Result: 1610, Text: The configuration data for this product is corrupt. Contact your support personnel."
Another part of the installation log is: ADOBE_SETUP=1 MSIRESTARTMANAGERCONTROL=Disable PROPERTY_FILE="C:\Users\[UserName]\AppData\Local\Temp\adbD68C.tmp" REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=poms 1: 0 2: 0 3: 1252 1: 0 2: 0 3: 0 1: PDF Settings This installation is forbidden by system policy. Contact your system administrator.
Again, I have tried the adobe clean up script, searching the registry (though I haven't found any help for registry keys specific to CS3 Extended), installed from my hard drive, tried with UAC on and off (mostly off!), have virus scan turned off, etc.
I've spent countless hours on this and am so frustrated that I can't put my installation disc in and have it just install.

Well, reads/copies of data from CDs sometimes do get errors.
I wrote a small command line tool a long while ago that will read every file in every folder under a given starting point and calculate a CRC value. I sometimes use this to check to see if everything is has been copied properly from a CD to a hard drive.
I have a download of Photoshop CS3 that I just ran the tool on, starting with the folder containing the Setup.exe for Photoshop.
D:\Download\Adobe>dir "D:\Download\Adobe\Photoshop\Photoshop CS3\Install\Adobe CS3"
Volume in drive D is D - NoelC4
Volume Serial Number is A22F-043B
Directory of D:\Download\Adobe\Photoshop\Photoshop CS3\Install\Adobe CS3
02/05/2010 04:52 PM    <DIR>          .
02/05/2010 04:52 PM    <DIR>          ..
03/22/2007 01:42 AM               327 Deployment.xml
02/05/2010 04:52 PM    <DIR>          payloads
02/05/2010 04:52 PM    <DIR>          redist
02/05/2010 04:52 PM    <DIR>          resources
03/22/2007 01:56 AM         2,689,208 Setup.exe
03/22/2007 01:58 AM            22,653 VersionInfo.xml
03/22/2007 01:30 AM         1,900,544 WinBootstrapper.msi
03/22/2007 12:56 AM           511,676 WinBootstrapper1.cab
D:\Download\Adobe>filecrc -?
Function:
      This program will calculate and display a CRC value from the data in
      one or more files. It can be used to verify that data created on
      software media is fully readable, has the expected structure, and
      is not corrupted.
Synopsis:
      FILECRC Path [-switches]
      Path -          Specify a file or directory path.
      -switches -     (Optional) One or more of the following switches:
                      -f -    File Contents Only Mode.
                      -d -    Directory and Contents Mode.
                      -t -    Terse output.
                      -a -    Include file attributes in CRC calculation.
                      -i -    File paths and names are case insensitive.
                      -s -    Calculate CRC-16 instead of CRC-32.
                      -b -    Output debug messages.
                      -? -    Output this help screen and exit.
D:\Download\Adobe>filecrc -f "D:\Download\Adobe\Photoshop\Photoshop CS3\Install\Adobe CS3"
Reading file data: 38 directories, 246 files.
Calculated CRC-32: E7110BE5
I don't know whether your particular media can be compared directly to my download, but if you're interested in trying the same command you're welcome to a copy of my filecrc executable. Just unzip and put the .exe file in a folder in your path. The most direct use is with the -f switch,
http://noel.prodigitalsoftware.com/temp/filecrc.zip
-Noel

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mike stripling: [removed] & [removed]
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mike stripling: https://i.imgur.com/GRdHQmc.png
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i am not an adobe employe and not an adobe spokesperson.
but my guess is it appears to adobe as if those keys have been 'hacked'. ie, published somewhere publically, used by others and are now blacklisted.

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