Do I need to deactivate my CS5 Student install to install on new system?

We have a Student download of Adobe CS5 on our system and through editing HD we decided that yes, our system won't cut it for long. So we are building a powerhouse replacement.
The question is, how do we install on the new system? We downloaded a large set of zip files used to install. There was no CD involved and we don't have paperwork. It was done through my wife's university and they don't seem to know. (and yes, it was done legally and properly)
I don't see a deactivate button anywhere in the menus, but maybe I am not looking hard enough or in the right place.
We don't wantto find out that, oh boy, CS5 was great, but we can't move it over to the new system because we didn't do something we were supposed to.
Thanks.

I have never deactivated, but I do know from reading before I bought (I work at a University) that the CS5 education version is exactly the same as the commercial version (except for the price and 2-step registration process) so Hunt's advice on how to deactivate should be the same
Also, making step-by-step backups during a new install or major program addition makes it easy to go back a step if something doesn't work
This backup and then restore is, of course, only to the same computer with a new drive (or the same drive as long as you don't mind writing over everything) since doing a restore to a new computer won't work due to Windows and many programs having activation information that is keyed to your hardware (which is why Windows will force you to RE-Activate if you change very much hardware)
The product I use is at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-linux.htm
Image runs off of a bootable CD via Linux (the Zip you download includes a program to make the bootable CD) and it reads EVERYTHING on the drive, even the hidden registration information, so everything is restored when needed... and you may restore the image to a brand new drive in case of a crash, and not have to re-install anything
Please note that I own no part of Image, and I don't get a referral fee (that is just a plain web link) but I use the program and it has saved me a LOT of trouble when I had a hard drive die... and I was able to restore everything and not have to re-install or re-activate a single program, from Windows on up

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