'Licensing Stopped Working' on migration of CS4 to Mac Air

Hello all,
I bought a mac air (10.7) and migrated all of my apps and user info from my macbook - including cs4 - via a time machine backup of that 'old' computer. Everything moved fine, and all apps work, except for cs4. I get an error that "Licensing for this product has stopped working" Error: 150:30
Any thoughts/assistance? Thanks!
Jennifer

It is best to re-install the apps, since you need to re-activate the apps as well. But you can try the license repair tool:
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/licensing.html

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