CS2 - Help won't open in Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive

Hi,
I am unable to open the help center in Creative Suite 2 for Photoshop, Illustrator, and GoLive.
After I click help, or press F1 to open help, I see the help program appear as a button on my Windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen. But if I click on it to open/switch to help, nothing happens. It's like the help center is "invisible".
I have tried renaming my prefs file to see if a new prefs file would fix it. It didn't.
It seems like this is a problem I had with the previous version of these programs, too. (I think that was Photoshop 7??) I had fixed it in that version, but can't remember what the fix was. I can't seem to find this problem in the forums or support either.
It's driving me crazy!! Can anyone help?
Thanks!

The help (zip) files are still available:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=319210&sliceId=2
While this addresses an issue that CS2 users (including myself) have experienced, I'm not convinced that Natalie is having this particular problem. She doesn't mention getting the "CS2 product not installed" message.
>"the help program appear[s] as a button on my Windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen . . . It's like the help center is "invisible"
Could it be that the help window is simply positioned off-screen?
-larry
PS: If a window is offscreen, press Alt+Spacebar, M (Move), and use the arrow keys to move the window into view.

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