CS5 Not Opening after OS X Reinstall

I bought my copy of CS5 Design Standard way back in 2010.
The apps have been working wonderfully until this summer when they no longer opened after I did a reinstall of OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4).
I have done reinstalls before Mountain Lion and have never had an issue using the apps. I'm unaware if I have committed some grave mistake on this occassion (unauthorizing each app for example???).
After the reinstall, I was able to use all programs except Illustrator which would close after the splash screen. After a while, none of the programs would open at all and the splash screens were gone.
I've done a good amount of research and tried digging into the library folders, deleting preferences, uninstalling and reinstalling, but nothing has been successful.
What's strange to me is that I'm able to run Creative Cloud perfectly fine. What's also strange is that CS6's demo version also functions well except Illustrator crashes.
Any insight on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
SPECS
MacBook Pro 17-inch (mid-2009)
OX 10.8.4
2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB Memory
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256MB.
Message was edited by: gojessgo

You will have to provide crash logs and other details. Most likely the licensing system simply is bombed due to an invalid signature/ key stored on your harddrive from the previous installs. Look into this:
Enabling and using the "root" user in Mac OS X
Running as root may allow you to overwrite the old stuff and produce a valid activation. Naturally also check your user privileges and file permissions - outdated info would effectively make some files belong to no one and block them completely...
Mylenium

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