Help Application in CS4 quit working

Question

When I click "Help" in CS4 I get the following error message:
    There was an error launching the Adobe Help application.
     You may need to re-install the application and the Help component.
When I click Help in Bridge nothing happens.
I am running Windows Vista SP2.
I have reloaded everything on the Adobe CS4 installation disk.  The same problem and symptoms remain.
Any help with this problem would be appreciated.  I did a search and didn't come up with anything similar.
Thank you.

Answer 1

My problem with photoshop and CS3 is that they are  triplicating the
photographs each time I launch and Adobe seems to continue to  give me the excuse
they are working on the problem of catalogues they are aware 
of.....................  I am into my 4 th month with this problem and  still have nothing
resolved.
Janisue Rigel 
In a message dated 8/8/2010 4:14:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:
ok  so I have had CS3 design suite for a few years now and I have never
had any  problems, the past few months I keep getting errors saying the
liscensing on  this product has quit working and I need to uninstall and
reinstall to fix  it.  I looked this problem up on the internet and found an
article on  adobe's site telling me to fix the flexnet issues and whatnot.  I did
everything it told me to do and photoshop still wont launch, continues to
give  me this error!  I uninstall the program and reinstall and it works
fine  for about 3-4 days then starts this all over again...I am at the end of
my  rope here, cant get any work done cause photoshop is always down.  I am 
running windows vista, would this be part of the problem maybe?  any help 
would greatly be appreciated, Im not sure at this point if I should get a new
version of windows or a new computer or what...something is not right with
it  and I cant keep doing portrait sessions without being able to deliver
proofs  in a timely  manner!