CS3 says "trial period has ended" and demands license key - I own the product! but can't find the key

I bought CS3 a couple of years back, and have been using it without problems ever since. All of a sudden I try to open it today and it says "Trial period has ended, please enter license key". The trouble is, I have no idea what the key is, when I bought the software I did it online with a work email address and I no longer work for that company so there is no way of tracing the email from my end.
has anyone experienced this? Any help gratefully received, I really need to do some work! and I don't really want to pay for PS all over again.
Many thanks.

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