Cannot start indesign in Creative suite - Licensing for this product has stopped working?

I uninstalled and deactivated my creative suite 4 on my old mac and installed it on my new iMac with Mavericks, ive updated and registered it, and the other programs work but Indesign wont start...
i get a message saying:
Licensing for this product has stopped working
This product has encountered a problem which requires that you restart your computer before it can be launched.
If you continue to see this message after restarting your computer, please contact either your IT administrator or Adobe technical support for help, and mention the error code shown at the bottom of this screen.
Error: 5
http://www.adobe.com/support/
(incase your wondering i have tried restarting)
Any help much appreciated!

i tried reinstalling it completely and it seems to have fixed it,

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