How to deactivate dead computer?

Hi All,
My desktop machine, a dual G5 tower, died (motherboard failed). A good time to finally upgrade to a Mac Pro, but now I'm having a problem re-activating my copy of Photoshop CS3 on this new machine. Since I could not de-activate on the dead machine, how do I free up an activation? (the other activation is for my laptop).
Many thanks in advance for any advice,
Chas

>Could Activation now be tied to both a particular HD AND a particular computer?
I don't know on a Mac, and I don't know if Adobe does it anyway, but that certainly is possible on a Windoze machine. My understanding is that it (the software security) reads and records some of the system config data when first initializing, and if it doesn't match up later. . .
I recently got to spend half a day on the phone with tech support for some of our software after we added a BlueRay drive to a machine. It turned out it WASN'T any sort of driver or software conflict, just the fact that it was there. They had to send me a reactivtion code (Windoze is SO fun!).

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