Lightroom Registry Entries... Serial Number Submission / Location has changed...

Question

I just deleted all the registry settings for Lightroom on my Windows PC.
I currently have Lightroom version 1.3.1 installed.
TOPIC #1
Why is Lightroom version 1.3.1 recreating Lightroom 1.1 registry entries?
Under HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Adobe -> Lightroom
there is a 1.1 key with nothing in it...
I deleted it again and restarted lightroom again. Just to clear things up, Lightroom was not running when I deleted the registry entries... either was the annoying launch thing on the system tray.
TOPIC #2 -- Multiple Entries
Why is lightroom creating HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Adobe Lightroom AND HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Adobe -> Lightroom
This seems like poor organization and just asking for confusion (since you are asking users to entry the registry and modify things per your Knowledge Base articles.)
As a developer, I don't really see any reason other than sloppy code / trying to move from one location to another, but the code is unfinished. So the app is drawing info from both locations.
The Software -> Adobe Lightroom registry key holds information about the app... the Adobe -> Lightroom seems like the more logical place to put things (since Acrobat and other apps go under there) has nothing but a version number and the version number listed does not match the version installed (I have never had 1.1 installed on this machine.)
So bottom line? Why have both? Why not keep things in Adobe -> Lightroom?
My current problem is Lightroom will not accept my registration... it looks like the reason for that is they've decided to store the registration / serial number information under C:\Users\All Users\Adobe\Lightroom\Lightroom 1.0 Registration.lrreg
The Lightroom 1.0 Registration.lrreg file is PLAIN TEXT setup as a "reginfo" array of data...
regInfo = {
address = "my address",
city = "my city",
company = "Ryan Sinn Photography",
country = "1",
email = "email goes here",
email_again = "email goes here again",
firstname = "Ryan",
industry = "26",
occupation = "21",
receive_email = "receive_email",
receive_fax = "no_receive_fax",
receive_mail = "no_receive_mail",
receive_phone = "no_receive_phone",
serial_number = "here was my serial number in plain text",
state = "1879",
uuid = "not sure what this is yet... maybe it's unique",
zip = "55432",
This knowledge base article:
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb401346
... is explaining how to fix the "registration try/buy prompt at startup" issue is wrong. At least it is on Vista. I have a second copy of lightroom (second serial number) on XP -- I'll have to check that out and see how that is setup and where the license file is.
The knowledge base or the FAQ (or both) should be updated because that solution no longer applies on the PC side of things.
Anyway -- enough of my rant about this stuff...
It just seems like version 1.3.1 and every version prior to it should really be release candidates for the REAL version 1.0.
Seems like the joke is on us ... we paid to figure out all the problems with the software... Does Adobe have QA Testers anymore or are professionals who pay for the software filling that roll?

Answer 1

The 1.3.1 created "Lightroom 1.0 Registration.lrreg" file has a different UUID... not sure how that is determined.<br /><br />Seems as though the other file was missing the Last Name, although I know I had that typed in.<br /><br />regInfo = {<br />     address = "address",<br />     city = "city",<br />     company = "Ryan Sinn Photography",<br />     country = "1",<br />     email = "email",<br />     email_again = "email again",<br />     firstname = "Ryan",<br />     industry = "26",<br />     lastname = "Sinn", <--- this was not in my other reg file<br />     occupation = "21",<br />     receive_email = "receive_email",<br />     receive_fax = "no_receive_fax",<br />     receive_mail = "no_receive_mail",<br />     receive_phone = "no_receive_phone",<br />     serial_number = "plain text serial number",<br />     state = "1879",<br />     uuid = "<uuid here>",<br />     zip = "55432",<br />}<br /><br />It seems as though this file needs to be deleted if you installed an older version of Lightroom, then upgraded to 1.3.1 and then tried to buy the software.