Installing some components from CS4 Design Premium on one computer and the others on a different computer?

Hi All,
I have bought a copy of Design Premium Student Edition.
I have installed one copy of it on my parents computer at home.
I was going to also install all the programmes on my laptop as well but I already have Illustrator CS3 and Photoshop CS3 on it. Would I be allowed to install all the programmes other than illustrator and photoshop onto my laptop and then install the Illustrator and Photoshop CS4 applications onto another computer?
If so how do I go about doing it?
Many thanks for your help.
Best,
Tom

That would be a violation and the way I understand it, the student edition only allows for one activation.
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