Dreaded CS3 Updater Loop/Hang

After a new installing CS3 (from DVD) and launching Photoshop, Adobe Updater launches automatically in the background and promptly goes into a 100% CPU loop. It's hung at the dialog
Adobe Updater
Checking for Updates for Adobe Updater
The dialog shows an empty progress bar. In ProcessExplorer there's one thread and it seems to be hung in CreateThread. ProcessExplorer also shows that it has one TCP socket open with a connection to an Akamai server. Wireshark shows that there was some initial traffic (a few dozen packets) consiting of XML data, and then nothing other than keepalives being exchanged. No data transfer in the last 20 minutes.
The process is not killable. I have to reboot the machine, and that takes 15 minutes to complete.
I know the Adobe Updater that shipped with CS3 (on the media) had severe problems. Is there a way to download a more recent CS3-compatible installer? Another solution to get past this hang?
Thanks

I FOUND THE SOLUTION!!!!!
Navigate to the Applications->Utilities->Adobe Utilities->Adobe Updater 5 and then launch the update util. If you launch it manually from there, IT RUNS!!!

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>Malcolm N_ wrote:
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Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:13:50 -0600
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