CS4 software no longer launching

Hi folks,
I'm having trouble with a couple of the CS 4 programs (indesign and photoshop). Neither program will now launch, the PC in question is about 10 days old, so everything should be cleanly installed (win XP, Adobe CS4 design standard).
I get the following messages:
Indesign
"AMT Subsystem Failure"
This product has has encountered a problem which requires that you restart your computer before it can be launched.
If you continue to see this message after restarting your computer, please contact either you IT administrator or Adobe technical support for help, and mention the error code shown at the bottom of this screen.
Error: 1
http://www.adobe.com/support
Photoshop
Some of the application components are missing from the Application Directory, Please reinstall the application.
Needless to say I've tried a few restarts, but I really don't want to start messing up my lovely new PC by re-installing stuff already! From a quick read around the internet, it appears these may be 'features' of Adobe software. Do I really have to re-install everything, and will I have to be doing this every week?
If anyone can offer advice I would be grateful, are these problems likely to be linked? Is this a feature of the Adobe licensing system? Will this be happening regularly? I've found many mentions of this issue on the forum/internet, but now useful solution from Adobe (and this problem appears to have been around for some time now, so presumably they aren't doing anything to fix it).
Thanks guys,
J
I understand th

I have the same issue, components missing from the directory, and on re-install (tried many times now) the CD skips a few times and the screen goes to "Thanks!" ...
I searched the Adobe Directories under C:\ and removed any and all dot-manifest files .. but this did not help
My PC just came back from HP factory service and a reinstall of Windows 7. It is new and still under warranty.
I am tempted to download a trial of Photoshop CS5 ... and see if it fares any better ...
Does noone have an answer? ... or a nice software utility which will take care of this problem? ...
I used msicuu2.exe, but it did not fix the issue.
Thanks for any assistance.
Sally

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