How to uninstal AE6.5 and AE7 because of error messages

Hi -
I upgraded from 6.5 to 7 awhile ago and haven't used either in about a year. Now that I'm needing it I get resistance. AE6.5Pro tells me that the registration # is invalid and then just quits. AE7Pro tells me that it's missing some files and I should reinstall.
OK - so I'm going to reinstall but that begs the question...should I uninstall first? What's the best way to do that? I think I will have to uninstall both, reinstall 6.5 and then upgrade over it. Will I get resistance from the validation routine??
Maybe someone knows of a workaround to save me all this trouble.
TIA some advice and direction.
J2

All the files you need should be in the respective Adobe directories (Program Files/Adobe, Program Files/Common Files/Adobe; Application Data/ Adobe or the respective equivalent directories) but ultimately the files themselves are of little consequence - a new install wil lsimply overwrite them. You main concern will be to clean out your registry/ prefs which can only be done by uninstalling correctly. Otherwise things could get pretty hairy. Unfortunately there's no such no-brainer tool as the CS3 clean scripts for AE7 and previous versions.
Mylenium

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