Damaged installs... that open anyway.

I've just signed up for CC and have downloaded several apps including Indesign, Illlustrator, PS, Acrobat, Bridge. But when I open most of them it says, 'your installation is damaged please reinstall.' Except that a couple of seconds later it opens the app anyway. Photoshop, in particular, says I need to reinstall Application Manager (which isn't on my CC list of apps to install).
It may be relevant (or not) to know that when I first tried to install CC it got hung on the spinning wheel, so I had to delete the contents of my OOBE folder in Library/Application Support/Adobe. I've restarted several times as well. I'm running 10.9.4 on an iMac.
I'm wary of using the apps in case they end up corrupting or damaging files in the process. Can anyone demystify this for me?
Thanks.

Thanks Mylenium. I'd love to say that solved the problem, but unfortunately no. Repair/restart and no change.
It's possible that this is not a huge problem, as I've been able to use the programs successfully with no apparent consequence to the files at all. But I'd really rather not have to deal with alert windows every single time I open an Adobe app, so it would be nice to fix it all the same.
Any other ideas you have would be greatly appreciated.

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