Cs3 reinstallation Errors: 10 components - install failed.

Question

I've been using cs3 for many years. I upgraded to Windows 8.1 in January. Everything was working perfectly until today. I got a license stopped working message. I followed the steps on adobe's website but nothing worked. I chatted with a representative online today, gave him my serial number, etc.  and asked him to deactivate so I can reinstall it. Perhaps this was a mistake since I was reinstalling on the same machine. At first he said he couldn't deactivate remotely but then he said he did. I could uninstall, then reinstall.
I uninstalled cs3, rebooted, and then tried to reinstall. After the shared components were installed and acrobat, all other components in cs3 failed. I tried uninstalling a couple times, rebooting, and reinstalling. Same error messages. Then I tried uninstalling, rebooting, running your clean up tools for cs3, rebooting, and reinstalling. Same thing happens. The last thing I tried was restoring windows to the last restore point when the computer was working properly. Then I reinstalled cs3. All components failed to install except acrobat.
I've also tried installing only some components without acrobat. That doesn't work either.
In windows programs 386,  I see all the cs3 programs in my adobe folder. When I try to run them I get this error message: 'The licensing subsystem has failed catastrophically. You must reinstall or call customer support.'
All my websites are based on dreamweaver templates so I hope someone can help me start the program. Thank-you

Answer 1

Hi everybody, we have the same problem. I work for university.We have to make a packeging for the Adobe CS4. I installed with administrator privilage, but the user for student isn't admin. Message came up when I opened programs... "Licensing for this product has stopped working: You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or contacting your IT administrator or adobe customer support for help."
The program for repackeging is Wise. I can put the admin privilage for adobe PCD and Macrovision Shared.
How can I do?
Thanks