De activating / un registering cs2 from my mac

Hi all
Hope someone can help here. . .
My friend installed cs2 on my mac and im the second user for his cd.
He now wants me to delete it off my mac as he wants to use it himself and has asked me to unregister it.
I have dragged everything from applications relating to cs2 into the bin and emptied it but it seems i still need to deactivate it.
How do i do this as i have nothing on my mac relating to cs2 anymore?
Many thanks
Mitch

Mitch,
>My friend installed cs2 on my mac and im the second user for his cd.
As Jim is saying: that's illegal; a.k.a. piracy. Please understand that you cannot install software registered for one person on someone else's machine. The intent of Adobe's "two computer activation" is so that the
same user has the convenience of using his legally obtained and licensed software non-simultanously on his home/office/laptop computers without having to pay for a second license.
As your installation contravenes that use, and the purpose of support in these forums, no further assistance will be forthcoming.
However, once you're "legal", please feel free to return to discuss other Photoshop issues.
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Jim and Neil...
Jim said:
"It is unlikely that many here will feel moved to assist a new thread on the topic to aid blatant abuse of licensing..."
and, Neil said:
"As Jim is saying: that's illegal; a.k.a. piracy. Please understand that you cannot install software registered for one person on someone else's machine. The intent of Adobe's "two computer activation" is so that the same user has the convenience of using his legally obtained and licensed software non-simultanously on his home/office/laptop computers.
As your use contravenes that use, and the purpose of these forums, no further assistance will be forthcoming."
I'm not 100% sure a lecture about piracy and legal use is called for in this case, and here's why:
I
specifically
called Adobe Customer Support for something almost exactly like Mitch is describing. It's hard to say if it's truly, exactly the same situation because of the lack of details.
Story continued in the first reply...

Continued from above...
My situation:
I do work for my brother's real estate business. He lives almost 300 miles away from me. I use Illustrator quite a bit in these jobs, and am generally very happy with my version 8. I can do everything I really need to do for him.
My brother has bought and installed the one of the CS3 suites, which includes Illustrator CS3, of course. He mostly uses Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat. He very rarely uses Illustrator, because he doesn't really have the time to learn it, but he has it so he can do a few thingsmaybe once or twice a yearopen files I send him, poke around a bit, etc. Most often, when I send him my AI8 files he just places them in InDesign, and goes from there.
There are features in Illustrator CS3 that would occasionally be very helpful to me in the work that I do for him. But not really so often that I can justify buying it. Let's ignore for a minute that I could write it off as a business expense, because I'm a basket case when it comes to organizing stuff like that. :)
About 6 months ago, I called Adobe Customer Support, and told them with 100% honesty the working situation I have with my brother's business as I've just described. Then I asked them this:
My brother's business owns 5 desktop macs and 3 laptop macs. Since my brother very rarely uses AI CS3, and only has it installed on his one desktop system, and since I am the primary Illustrator user for his company, is it within the T.O.S. for him to send the install disk to me so that I can install AI CS3 on my system and be considered the LEGAL 2nd installation for his license?
Answer from Adobe Customer Support (after about 5 minutes, while he asked someone, or researched the legality):
"Yes, you may do that."
I spent another 10 minutes talking with the C.S.R., asking the same question every possible way, confirming that it's legal, that it isn't in violation of the T.O.S. and E.U.L.A., and that it wouldn't put either of us in jeopardy for some mysterious de-authorization sometime in the future, or that it wouldn't jeopardize his ability to upgrade to newer versions of the Suite.
I
really
grilled the guy about these things, because I wanted to be completely above board about everything, and he continually reassured me that what I was asking about was COMPLETELY cool by Adobe.
So far as of the time of this post, I haven't reminded my brother to send me the installation disk in the mail; that should tell you that I really don't have a pressing need for the newer features in AI CS3. But if I did, all indications are that my installing it on my system as the 2nd activation on his license is legal.
Soooo...Whether there are any details that Mitch left outor is fudging onin the other thread, we can't know, unless he replies to this thread. And if he replies with more details, we can't
truly
know whether he's telling the full truth.
But, I had to post about my experience just to show that we ought to be a little careful, we should know all the facts and we should assume nothing before we brand a visitor here as a pirate and therefor undeserving of help.

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