CS2 InDesign not recognising serial number

On starting up InDesign CS2 a dialogue box came up asking me for my serial number (I have had CS2 for four years or so now and have never had to enter it apart for the first run). However on entering the serial number it says: 'The serial number you provided is not valid. Please check your serial number and re-enter it' leaving me unable to open InDesign and so access my files. Also Illustrator CS2 on opening now just shows the splash screen and goes no further (giving me the spinning beach ball). However Photoshop and Bridge both open fine. I have deleted preferences to no avail. I have even reinstalled InDesign and Illustrator from my original CS2 Cds (which accepted my serial number) but I get the same when trying to open the programmes. The only thing I can think that has gone wrong is that Adobe installed an update yesterday (I think of Version Cue) and everything worked fine until I closed down and did a restart this morning. Has anyone experienced the same - I am really stuffed until I can sort this out and posting on Adobe Support says that will get back in 3 days!
Apple Macintosh Dual 2.3GHz PowerPC G5 OSX 10.4.11

It was definitely the update last week (I think to the actual Adobe updater itself) as InDesign on my cloned bootable drive opened OK until I inadvertently updated that too (hadn't cottoned on that that was causing the problem at the time). Consequently I have started from ground zero as the advice Adobe sent me didn't work:
"Regarding your concern, we would request you to launch any other product from the suite and then by going into Help->Deactivate, check the box "Erase this serial number" and then click on deactivate. After doing this, quit the application and launch InDesign CS2 and enter the serial number when it asks you for it and it should accept the serial number."
This was mainly because under help I had 'Activate' which was obviously greyed out (as it was active) and the only other available thing was to transfer activation which didn't have the "Erase this serial number' option!
Also I had to remove the InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop folders form my start up hard drive so that the installation CDs would let me install them on my now ex clone hard drive.
Good job I wasn't doing anything in particular this weekend!
Ditching prefs and stuff didn't seem to work for me hence the reinstall of OSX etc as I couldn't find the offending bit which was probably hidden deep in the Libraries somewhere.
Just to note: InDesign demanded the serial number and then said it was invalid, Illustrator got to the splash screen and then just hung but Photoshop and Bridge opened.
Sorry to be the bearer of such good news. But - remember - turn off the updater NOW and if you need to update download directly from the Adobe website.
Have fun!

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