Help! Photoshop CS3 liscensing quit working!

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!

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!

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