Enterprise Uninstall for Adobe CS4 Design Standard

I work for a decent sized company with an understaffed/overloaded IT department and am therefore trying to forge ahead on my own to figure out how to upgrade everyone from CS4 to CS5.5. I generally do more GI support, not coding, but I do know a basic amount of batch scripting (or can find resources online to figure it out).
Is it possible to batch script something to uninstall the CS4 suite? I haven't had any luck going into the Registry Editor (HK_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > MICROSOFT > WINDOWS > CURRENT VERSION > UNINSTALL), finding the various key name folder, and running msiexec.exe \i {keyname here} remove=all. I've also tried msiexec.exe \x {keyname here}, but I get the following two error messages:
This installation package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer package.
Please Install [application name here] using Setup.exe
I'm testing this on Windows XP SP3, although we also have some users on Windows 7 as well. Any direction is appreciated.

Just a basic first question:  Are you sure you want to remove the CS4 package?  It's not a technical necessity (not speaking of licensing here) to remove a prior version to upgrade to a new one.  It's not a strong possibility that CS4 was able to do much that CS5.5 can't but someone could have some issue they have trouble with in CS5.5, and the ability to fall back might be useful for them.
Also, presets and preferences are not automatically transferred to the new version.  If any of your users has stuff they'd like to customize in CS5.5 it might be helpful for a while for them to be able to go back and open up CS4 and see how they had things set.
Just some thoughts.
-Noel

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