Cs 5 won't recognize serial # for upgrade.

is this a dumb question-  I'm upgrading from cs 4 extended to cs 5 extended.  when went throught the installation windows, it took the cs 5 serial # fine but told me the cs 4 # was not vaild.  I cut and pasted both numbers straight from my order history on adobe site.  do I need to to deactivate cs 4 first?

Cool . . . thanks. Would I be able to put the software on both my laptop and desktop? Or is it one serial # per computer? Because it seems a bit crazy to have to buy 2 $1,800 copies of the same thing, for the same person.

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