Insufficient Rights - Adobe Updater

Hi,
I am receiving this message every time the updater starts:
"Insufficient Rights - Adobe Updater can be run only by users with administrator rights". never happened before. nothing changed on my machine except that today I installed Windows XP on BootCamp. but what does that has to do with the CS3 updater?
I am using OS X leopard 10.5.2
MacBook Pro.
any help will be appreciated.
thanks
Mic

I ended up finding the solution at this link.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/1770665
Erech_Belt said
5. Aug 14, 2008 7:22 AM in response to: (LeaAnn_Coldren)
Re: Insufficient Rights Window for non-admins after 8.1.2 successful install
Here is the solution I found.
"Renaming %program files%/Common Files/Adobe/updater5 to something else removed the error."
This seems like a brute force approach, but it does work. I checked the event logs after doing this and don't see any errors in the App or System logs. This folder is the location of AdobeUpdater.exe and all of the Adobe .cer files, so it makes sense that this works, but seems like it should generate other errors...
This is not how I wanted to solve the problem but it did solve it.
Justin

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