Clean-up, ReInstall PS-CS5 on Mac workstation

Question

I have 3 tape drives and one SSD on my MacPro workstation.
I originally installed CS5 on one of the tape drives (running OSX-10.6.8).
Then installed CS5 on one of my other HDD's I had updated to 10.8 in order to work w/LR5 and onOne's "Perfect Foto Suite" – both requiring OSX-10.7+.
Right after doing this I found I  chronically get this  dialog pop up – on BOTH my 10.6 HDD AND my 10.8 HDD:
1) Whether I click 'Do not Update' OR 'Update' – even though PS is already open and running – a second "version" of PS will open. (I can see within the 'dock' that I have TWO CS5's running at once!)
2) There is no rhyme or reason to this event: It may happen when I double-click on an image file to open in PS or when I Right-click above an image file then select from the options presented 'Open With'/'Photoshop CS5 Application' I will often – though not every time – get that godforsaken dialog.
As I say, I have just purchased a new SSD (240GB)  I intend to dedicate ONLY to running 'Snow Leopard', CS5, LR5, the Nik Collection, 'Perfect Photo Suite' and a number of non-Adobe audio and video editing titles saving files to my two available tape drives (on board), the third being dedicated to Time Machine. (LR Catalog, Previews, Settings, etc. will remain w/the application on this SSD.)
SO, after squandering well over a half hour this afternoon with an Off Shore multi-tasking automaton I was eventually told  "Adobe no longer supports this application; you'll have to go to the Adobe forums".
I'm here hoping I can connect with someone who "fixes" stuff like this on a pretty regular basis and can offer me a simple (or convoluted) process to get CS5 *successfully purged* from my second tape drive so that I don't violate any Adobe Rules by installing CS5 on that new SSD. I just want to get back to being more productive once again...
I have my Brush sets, my Actions sets, etc. backed-up so I can target them later for use on a setup that will hopefully allow for me to PRINCIPALLY work on the SSD, once in a rare while still go back and do some work on the HDD running 10.6.8.
Thanks, mm

Answer 1

Thanks for moving this to a more appropriate discussion venue Jeff.
I may be "fixing" things on my own (impatient guy I am):
1) I am UNinstalling PS-CS5 on each of the two tape drives I currently have it on inside my MacPro. (I am NOT "unregistering" my application w/Adobe – a checkbox option in the UNinstall dialog.)
2) THEN I plan to install CS5 "fresh" on my new "Macintosh HD", that new SSD (from where I intend to run the entire show in the future) and see what that does... (so I can get on with being productive).
As long as you are a "part of Adobe's 'inner circle' (of sorts)" my observations/feelings ABOUT Adobe these days:
- Their "help" pages are not much help at all (much like how their "Classroom in a Book" series is written) – software engineers, developers speaking to one another, NOT to the VAST MAJORITY of Adobe customers.
- I DON'T want to rent software; I want to OWN IT!
- AND after contributing to Adobe's bottom line now for well over a decade (with all due respect; not to come up in YOUR face Jeff) it REALLY pisses me off that I am forced to sit on hold FOREVER when calling an Adobe "help"line – NEVER GETTING TO TALK TO SOMEONE (finally hanging up after 45+ minutes) OR leaving my call-back number NEVER getting a call back from Adobe boiler room workers only to eventually being told by my latest brush with Adobe "Customer (DIS)Service", Farid, that "Adobe no longer provides support for its CS5 applications".
Honestly Jeff? If there were a viable alternative to PS I'd be GONE in a second (because of my experiences w/Adobe these past 5 years).
Having led a Lightroom, Photoshop Digital Photography Meetup group for well over a year before finally just letting it go (making comprehensive presentations to the membership about these applications work – stand alone and in-tandem) I KNOW that the "VAST MAJORITY of Adobe customers" DO NOT understand much of anything about its applications AND the way Adobe treats all these days I KNOW I'm not the only one who is thoroughly disgusted.
I understand THIS is not your job Jeff. Just pass it on up the food chain. Perhaps Shantanu will "get it", begin to smell the coffee before newbies join Old Timers looking for alternatives to Adobe products. (I use many myself daily; have no need to rent the "Creative" 'Cloud' whatsoever.)
Sorry to make you the point of my rant here – trash or pass on to the little man, whatever.
Cheers,
mm
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