Moving installation of InDesign CS2 to Vista 64-bit computer

I've been running Adobe InDesign CS2 on my Windows XP laptop and yesterday I installed the program, instead, on my desktop computer which is running Vista 64-bit version. It has a much bigger screen, and I'm looking forward to using the computer for my desktop publishing work and reserving my laptop for my teaching work.
When I try to load Adobe PDF presets, so that I can send a pdf to a client, I get mysterious messages about their not being accessible to me. The preset files are in the preset settings folder, under All Users. That folder is grayed out in File Explorer but permissions are set so that EVERYONE can use it.
I disabled Windows User Accounts and Firewall.
InDesign can't see the preset files; if I scroll up from the folder the program begins to look for them (the folder with the document I have open), and get to Users, All Users does not appear at all.
I'm at a loss of what to do. Any ideas, anyone?
--D

You are in completely unsupported territory. While some users have been successful, no CS2 software is Vista certified or supported in a 64 bit environment. This is especially true for all versions of Acrobat prior to 8.1.
I strongly suggest upgrading to CS4.
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