Disappearing plug-ins

Photoshop has stopped recognizing my OnOne PhotoSuite plug-ins. Started occurring a few days ago.
I've spent the last three hours reinstalling, manually removing plug-ins and replacing them with fresh versions, searching support sites. Now I'm hoping someone more savvy than I can help.
Circumstances?
I was a college professor for 4 decades, but now I'm retired and emeritus. My wife gave me CS5 academic as a Christmas present. I installed it. But Adobe denied I qualified. So I uninstalled CS5, using Adobe's uninstaller. After I did that, CS3 stopped recognizing the OnOne suite.
I reinstalled the update for the Suite, and the installer said everything went correctly. But the Suite plug-ins were not installed in the Photoshop CS3 folder. When I copied them there manually, CS3 didn't recognize them.
So, something that happened during that aggravating business, I'm sure. But I don't know what it was or how to undo it.
Thanks all!

This appears to be a Photoshop only issue. Please post in the Photoshop forum.
Bob

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