I bought a number of Creative Suite 2 Premium packages (plus a few others) at an auction and want to sell them on.  Is activation going to be a problem?

Recently I bought a fairly large collection of software at a local general auction.  In the collection are several copies of Adobe products that I would like to sell on.  I've read through the activation transfer section of the adobe site but the advice there seems to either require access to the computer the software was originally installed on (which may now have either been broken for parts or simply scrapped) or some form filling by the original owners who are unknown and not contactable.
The products I have are:
Creative Suite 2 Premium (8x copies a mix of Windows and Mac)
Creative Suite 2 Premium With Macromedia Studio 8 (1x copy for Windows)
Creative Suite 5 Master Collection (1x copy for Mac)
Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium Upgrade Version (1x copy for Mac)
All are in their original boxes with their manuals, registration cards.
I suppose I could punt the whole collection on as a "bought as seen" lot but I'd rather sort out the activation issue so I can move them on in good faith without just passing the problem on to someone else.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks but that's not the issue I'm asking about steve, I'll be selling them on to users of the correct required operating systems (Windows XP and Mac OS X) of which there are still a large number in use.  But I need to make sure they can be activated once installed.

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