CS3 Photoshop: activation woes

My old Mac laptop, which was running Photoshop CS3, died.  In copying over the HD to a partioned drive on my iMac (OS 10.6.8), PS asked for activation which can no longer be done on line or or over the phone.  The Adobe help desk suggested removing and re-installing PS, which I did, using the original PS .dmg file purchased from Adobe.  Still stuck at the activation window and my most recent conversation with Adobe has them telling me the problem may rest with the image I'm using and to find a CS3 disc or new download (which Adobe does not have)cs.  Pretty lame.  So any further suggestions would be helpful.  I doubt being able to find an installation disc easily, so at this point I have a piece of unusable software from a company that's washed it's hands of responsibilty.

If installing on a new drive it may be asking for the qualifying procduct s/n.  If you updated from CS2 that is the s/n to type in.  Then it will ask for CS3 s/n.
Also, you are allowed ony 2 activated copies.  The one on the dead computer is still considered activated copy unless you are able to get in there and deactivate.  If you have had 2 activated copies in the past and never deactivated either one this may be the problem.
Only customer service can reset the activation process.

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