Help w/ upgrade (corrupt) CS4 - CS 5.5 ; MSOffice 2007 - 2010

Hello:
I recently conducted a LONG phone-based support incident, and I have reviewed the many KB articles on my topic(s) but I still have some questions.
ISSUE:
I need help with uninstalling & cleaning up CS4 in order to cleanly install CS5.5, coincident with a planned upgrade from Office2007 to Office2010 on a Win7(x64) SP1 PC. I use fully-licensed educational versions of Adobe CS & MS Office products.
In particular, I need to know if I should upgrade Office2007 to Office 2010 BEFORE uninstalling CS4 and installing CS5.5, or the other way around?
Background:
1) Several weeks ago, Adobe PDF Printer in Acrobat 9 of my long-standing, fully-patched CS4 install inexplicably disappeared from my system.
2) TMAVLSS, After several long weeks of phone assistance with escalated Tech Support, including attempts to repair the PDF printer, reinstall it, uninstall drivers, reinstall it again, etc we were unsuccessful. Failure was ultimately attributed to "core driver package" corruption.
3) All other components of CS4 have continued to work just fine, including Acrobat, as well as scanning to pdf from my HP printer, "saving" Word docs as pdf. But I have been getting by without Adobe PDF Printer.
4) It was suggested that we completely uninstall CS4 and reinstall it. Since I knew CS5.5 was soon to be released, I opted to wait.
5) I now have a boxed educational version of CS5.5 and a licensed, educational DVD of MSOffice 2010 Pro.
6) So I think I have everything to proceed, but I am a bit uncertain about the correct sequence to do this.
7) One other wrinkle is that KIS2012 has just been released. Upgrade will require that I first uninstall KIS2011.
Questions:
1. Should I perform the Office upgrade first, or should I upgrade Adobe CS first?
2. I assume, given the unresolved issues with the Adobe PDF Printer in my Acrobat 9 component of CS4, that I should perform a complete uninstall of CS4 & perhaps all Adobe Products (Including Adobe AIR), then run the CS4-5 removal tool, and only then attempt to cleanly install CS5.5?
3. Would it be advisable -- to avoid potential subtle AV or firewall issues -- to perform the Office and CS upgrades with KIS uninstalled (taking into account the requisite security considerations)?
If Adobe staff monitor this board, and if they would like the details/case number of my recent extended Tech Support incident, please let me know, and I will provide it via PM.
In the interim, I most certainly appreciate your assistance and advice!
RM

Hello, mylenium:
Thanks for your reply.
Kindly indulge my concern about this.
I am not a computer geek, but I have been working with PCs long enough to know that it often helps to plan ahead.
I am just looking to get a clean, uncorrupted install of CS5.5 DS Educational, with minimal risk.
Adobe CS is a LARGE, complex package, deeply integrated into the OS and other programs, and installation of which has been troublesome from time to time over the years.
And it has certainly cost me countless hours of frustration recently, trying to resolve the PDF Printer mess, especially since TS ultimately left my system in worse shape than it was when I first called.
I am not looking for guarantees or assurances.
I am really just looking for answers to my original questions.
(As far as the security stuff is concerned, I have the info I need on that from another source.)
So:
1) You say, "you will have to run the Cleaner Tool eventually", but do not say at what point in the process. I assume I will need to follow the tutorial posted in the Help section of the CS web site.
2) You say, "...None of that has anything to do with Microsoft's apps". Could you please tell me, though, whether I should perform the Office upgrade FIRST, or the Adobe CS5.5 upgrade FIRST?
3) I am confused by the "dumb file overwrite process" you mention. If I will be UNinstalling CS4 and running a cleanup tool prior to cleanly installing CS5.5, what files would remain to be over-written? (I am not planning an in-place upgrade from CS4 to CS5.5.)
Thanks very much for your patience and consideration,
daledoc1

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