CS1 on an Intel iMac Quad core i7

Is it possible to get this thing running? Everything works except Photoshop, which is what I need most; error message says:
Could not complete your request because of missing or invalid personalization information.
Adobe would not, of course, help.
This is an educational version I bought legitimately from the university bookstore; I am the registered user/owner. I DID have the software installed on an older machine whose power supply died, and can no longer be fixed (11 year old Mac), so maybe it is an activation error (that's what it sounds like). I am about to buy CS5, but just have to wait a bit for my bank account to recover from this computer purchase (and the university bookstore doesn't HAVE any copies of CS5 yet, anyway, even if I had the money).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Cameron

CS is unsupported on Intel Macs and under Snow Leopard or Leopard. The chances of getting all of this working well are not great and indeed moving to CS5 is your best bet.
Bob

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