License has stopped working (CS3): tried every fix but no dice

Hello all, my PS CS3 will not work and I've tried and tried to get it to work but it won't.   You can read everything I've done on this forum:
http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?4,2854842,2854842
I've called Adobe 6 or 7 times now and run both scripts they've made, uninstalled and re-installed 3 times, fixed permissions, deleted the FLEXnet folder (wasn't where it was supposed to be), etc.    Adobe sent me a followup email about my case last week asking how it was going (with no reply address!) and I posted all of this on their support page for my case but have yet to hear from them.   Really, I'm surprised at how bad Adobe's customer service is. A company as successful as Adobe ought to do better!     What is especially frustrating about this is that the program worked fine before, it's just some code they created that's causing the trouble, so why can't they fix the code?   Or give me a refund? Or the upgrade to CS4?
Any help would be appreciated!
   -Cal

I get the "License has stopped working" mesages too.
We have a MacbookPro at home. There are two user-acounts on this mac, one for my wife and one for myself. This way we keep our personal stuff (e-mail, files, settings, dropbox, desktop clutter etc) separated. "Fast user switching" is enabled to easily switch to your personal account.
Now when I open Photoshop I might get the dreaded "License has stopped working" message. This will happen if Photoshop is left open in her account. So I'll have to log into her account, close Photoshop, go back into my own acount and open Photoshop again.
I should not get this message since Photoshop is not part of a particular user account, it is installed in the "Applications" folder which is accesible to all users.
What makes it even more annoying is that I get the "License has stopped working" message on trying to open Photoshop even when Photoshop is closed in in the other acount, but Illustrator is opened.
This makes no sense since we bought Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 as separate programs, not as a part of the Creative Suite.
I did not report this to Adobe yet but it wil do that now.

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We have a MacbookPro at home. There are two user-acounts on this mac, one for my wife and one for myself. This way we keep our personal stuff (e-mail, files, settings, dropbox, desktop clutter etc) separated. "Fast user switching" is enabled to easily switch to your personal account.
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What makes it even more annoying is that I get the "License has stopped working" message on trying to open Photoshop even when Photoshop is closed in in the other acount, but Illustrator is opened.
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https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/error-licensing-stopped-mac-os.html
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About a month ago I got the error "Licensing has stopped working" when I tried to launch Photoshop CS3. I followed the steps on the forum
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-licensing-stopped-windows.html
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