Clean install - "License Has Expired" problem

My computer died last week so I bought a new Gateway PC running Vista. I've been able to re-install everything except Photoshop CS3. This is a new-from-the-factory PC that never had any version of Photoshop installed. I installed CS3 from my downloaded installer and entered the registration key but get the "Product license has expired" error when I try to launch the program. I even went to my Adobe Product Registrations page to double-check that I had the correct license #.
I followed the steps on this web site to uninstall, run the CS3Clean script, and deleted the cache.db file. Upon re-installation the setup program seems to accept the serial number with a green check mark, but then when I try to launch the program I get the "license has expired" error again. Frustrating!
I obtained CS3 legitimately as a pre-release tester and it worked fine up until my old PC died last week. And I was able to successfully re-install my Mac version of CS3 just a few weeks ago.
Anyone have any good ideas before I try the uninstall/clean process again?

Thanks for the idea! However I already disabled UAC before I even tried to install CS3, and I did attempt the install using an administrator account (the only user account on the machine, currently).

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