CS3 won't re-install on Windows 7

I've been using CS3 on my Windows 7 machine for a few months now but then my programs wouldn't open. After trying a few things without success, I decided to uninstall and then re-install it.
The disc runs and it shows that each of the programs is installed but at the bottom it says "CS3 premium didn't install." Whenever I try to open one of the programs, I get a message saying the license has expired.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? If so, how did you resolve it? I've tried all of the suggestions in the knowledge base, but nothing has worked.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Just today I performed an OS reinstall. I took disk image snapshots (using Paragon) after each phase of reinstalling my system. I performed the following (in order):
Clean install of Windows 7 64 bit
Applied all Windows updates
Disk snapshot
Joined the "new" system to my windows domain (SBS 2003 - connect computer)
Disk snapshot
Installed my new CS4 Web Premium upgrade - this succeeded
Updated all CS4 applications
Disk snapshot
Installed Office 2007 and all Office updates
Set up My Documents for off-line files
Disk snapshot.
So far, things have continued to work after each step. I believe CS3 hosed my system when I performed my CS3 updates. I may have originally installed before joined my domain and perhaps trying to update using my domain profile had something to do with the initial licensing error issue that started all my problems. And Customer Support told me to just uninstall/reinstall CS3 after that when Technical Support said I should have tried other things first. But I really had no confidence for anything the script-jockey said.
It certainly was the fact that I had problems with CS3 first that I couldn't even get CS4 to install. And don't even try the CleanScript unless you perform a full OS backup first. That made changes to the security settings in my Office 2007 installation.

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