Illustrator CS3 upon launch crashes

Question

Recently, bought an Apple iMac, installed Parallels virtual machine and installed my Windows XP Professional and installed my CS3 Premium. Every program works except Illustrator. It crashes every time I launch it getting the error message..."blah, blah, blah, sorry for the inconvenience...'' and asks to send an error report. I have uninstalled and reinstalled every possible way, downloaded all the updates, and fixed the registry, repeatly and every time it fails.
I have been using CS3 on my HP laptop every since I got it and never had issues. My brother seems to think that my installation disk is scratched and messes up the download. So, basically, it somehow got scratched when I put it on my mac. Could this be an issue or is this something else?
Chris

Answer 1

I find this to be a pretty staggeringly self-righteous and intentionally obtuse response.
Clearly, Adobe does not cease all support for a prior version the second a new version comes out, so we can dispense with the idea immediately that anyone is barred from a service request on one version previous.
You know as well as I do that the major difference between CS3 and CS4 is the change from "CS3" to "CS4" in the title.  To me, not entirely justifying of a demand on your part to upgrade.
All of this sidesteps the fact that you miss (intentionally?) the primary point: there's an easy fix to this.  Adobe just lets me do a crossgrade.  No skin off of anyone's nose.
Clearly, they CAN make me get a fruitless upgrade.  And clearly, I COULD have individually researched every single title prior to switch to make absolutely sure it would run perfectly under parallels.  But neither of these entirely makes sense.
I'm not demanding that Adobe fix this.  I'm simply stating that it would be nice to get a response, and I would prefer that that response was helpful rather than hiding behind a policy which, in this case, makes little sense.
Thanks for the moralizing yet unhelpful response!