CS3 AE Installation Nightmare

I am at the end of my rope with Adobe products and Adobe's scripted and outsourced "technical support." I have spent days in the last couple of months trying to get Adobe software to run. Recently I waiting 1.5 hours on a phone to have a guy in India tell me that I would have to go up a grade in paid support to get the answer to my question!!!!
Ridiculous.
The problem now is my home computer...I had to have the C disc wiped because I picked up a malware...while trying to download a DVD writing utility to do what my computer at work would not do: write to DVD with Encore.
The problem now is that when I try start CS3 AE an error message comes up saying that AE cannot load AERes1.dll I have searched for a solution and the only one I can find is, that's right, wipe your C drive and reinstall.
Some details:
Running XP with latest updates Two gigs ram. Have the entire CS3 suite. GEForce 7800GT graphics card. Also have Dreamweaver CS3 and Fireworks CS4.
When I try to reinstall AE, the computer asks me to reinstall Fireworks CS4 which has not been uninstalled. I put the disc in and it tells me to put the CS3 installation disc. I installed Quicktime before I noticed the problem. I uninstalled Quicktime and attempted to install AE. No luck.
I have an important video to be done in less than two weeks. Can anyone help...Adobe does not seem to care.

I'll give the same answer here that I gave on the other forum where you asked this:
> Adobe does not seem to care.
That's a pretty broad statement.
I'm Adobe, and I care.
Problems can occur when you install and activate an earlier version (like CS3) after a later version (like CS4). You say that you "wiped" your C drive, but there may still be some lingering traces of the previous activations on your disk. That would potentially cause problems when you re-installed the Adobe software.
In order to really start from a clean state, you need to run the "clean scripts".
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs3clean.html
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cs4clean.html
Try uninstalling your Adobe software, running these utilities, and then reinstalling. Re-install the CS3 software before reinstalling the CS4 software.
Normally, I wouldn't jump straight to recommending uninstalling and reinstalling, but it seems that you're in the process of rebuilding this system after a "wipe" anyway.
Good luck. Let us know if you need any more help.

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