Indesign (CS4) no longer launches

Question

Hi folks, I posted this on the CS forum, but it may be better here....
I'm having trouble with a couple of the CS 4 programs (indesign and photoshop). Neither program will now launch, the PC in question is about 10 days old, so everything should be cleanly installed (win XP, Adobe CS4 design standard).
I get the following messages:
Indesign
"AMT Subsystem Failure"
This product has has encountered a problem which requires that you restart your computer before it can be launched.
If you continue to see this message after restarting your computer, please contact either you IT administrator or Adobe technical support for help, and mention the error code shown at the bottom of this screen.
Error: 1
http://www.adobe.com/support
Photoshop
Some of the application components are missing from the Application Directory, Please reinstall the application.
Needless to say I've tried a few restarts, but I really don't want to start messing up my lovely new PC by re-installing stuff already! From a quick read around the internet, it appears these may be 'features' of Adobe software. Do I really have to re-install everything, and will I have to be doing this every week?
If anyone can offer advice I would be grateful, are these problems likely to be linked? Is this a feature of the Adobe licensing system? Will this be happening regularly? I've found many mentions of this issue on the forum/internet, but now useful solution from Adobe (and this problem appears to have been around for some time now, so presumably they aren't doing anything to fix it).
Thanks guys,
J
PS...I should add that I have just checked out FLEXnet Licensing Service and it is NOT disabled (but set to manual as it should be)
PPS
I've just done a reinstall of CS4, it made no difference.
Should I uninstall, *then* reinstall this time? Should I just visit the priate bay?
Thanks

Answer 1

Had another go, but no better. I used the clean script but it doesn't seem to do anything (I guess it would only be of use if there was some dodgy registry info left behind...it doesn't clean any of the adobe folders in 'program file', 'application data' or 'local settings'.
This time I manually deleted every mention of adobe before reinstalling (very satisfying!)
However it makes no difference. Adobe illustrator still works fine but Indeisgn and Photoshop give the same error messages as mentioned above.
Each time I reinstall, Adobe resets the 'FLEXnet licensing service' to manual. I don't know why it does this, as presumable it means it wouldn't work automatically. However resetting this myself doesn't work either.
I've tried the pirate version out on my own laptop and it's working well so far! It seems to run a lot leaner than the legitimate version did (before it packed up!), but I guess that's due to the fact it isn't constantly asking Adobe's permission to do everything! I'll have to give up and put a copy of that on my works machine as well.
Thanks for the help anyway.