CS3 Licensing for this product has stopped working on Snow Leopard

Question

Ok, I tried all the links, suggested, the solutions that Adobe suggested, emailed them today, see what responce I get, ran the Licensing fixer script, re-installed after using the uninstall and uninstall script, ran through all the suggestions they made, ran the installer disk with all options off, I am at the end of my rope here, nothing seems to be working, is there anyone else that might like to chime in here to see how I can even get CS3 working in Snow Leopard? I did a clean install of the OS and then time machine to add all the apps and docs back in, CS3 is the only app that is not working right now, that and the Qmaster from Compressor, think Apple would have fix that little nugget before releasing! DOH! I do need CS3 to work soon, I hope that maybe the next patch will work!

Answer 1

I had the same exact experience as all of these folks.  I bought Adobe CS3 and installed it on my MAC.  Upgraded my system to Snow leopard 10.6.7 and Adobe stopped working (license error message).  Notably, on my work computer I had the same error appear after uninstalling a couple of components of the application and reinstalling them again....so be aware of that as well.
My first step was to call the Adobe help desk where I was told after about a half hour that my system upgrade to snowleopard 10.6 made my system incompatible with Adobe.  I mentioned to the technician that I was sitting viewing the statement from Adobe in 2009 that these systems were tested to be compatible.  I was hung up on.  I called back and got another technician who told me the same thing and said there was nothing more they could do for my $1000 piece of software.
Anyway, enough ranting...don't go by the Adobe advice and the re-license software doesn't work (or at least it didn't for me).  I tried uninstalling and reinstalling several times to no avail.  I had to find all of my FLEXnet files and delete them.  This took forever because my finder didn't find them (nor did my spotlight).  I had to look for them and they were in three places (library, utilities, and within some of the individual application folders).  I deleted the entire folders.  I then deleted any file even remotely associated with Adobe. I then reinstalled with all of the applications unclicked. This is important. Then I added Photoshop.  You have to open that first to get the serial number prompt (Acrobat will just crash if you try to open it without loading and opening photoshop first).  Then I loaded Acrobat and that seems to be working.  It only took me 16 hours and my time is actually worth more than the price of the software but oh well, mission accomplished, I hope this helps someone.  What a complete festival of nonsense!