CS2 Serial Number

I know that CS 2 is not supported by Adobe, but I have a registered copy and trying to reinstall on my PC. When I try to install, it asks for a serial number and I can't find it on the cover. Now what? I don't want to hear about upgrading - I am retired and don't have the money to upgrade.
Also, to complicate matters, I believe that installation asks for a previous version of Photoshop which I have, but the disk I have has a wrong serial number on it (hard to believe that Adobe could make such a mistake, but it did). Whenever I had a problem, Adobe would walk me through giving me a one-time code to use to get it to work).
Any help would be very much appreciatd.
Sandy

By some miracle, I found the serial number and loaded CS 2 on my Windows XP machine.
My next mission is to figure out why I cannot put CS 2 on my Windows 7 machine.
Thanks for your help and if you have any suggestions on Windows 7, I'm all ears.
Sandy

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