New drive question

After the last update, my main drive would not boot on my G5. It was 4 years old and I have had so many problems with 10.5.6, I bought a new drive and installed it. I have had problems with programs not running after 10.5.4 so I installed 10.5.3.
I am able to mount the old drive and I dragged a lot of applications over. I have 2 questions, though.
1. Most applications, when I try to run ask for the installation code. This isn't a problem, as the program runs once I enter it. The problem is with the Adobe products. It won't let me enter the installation code. Instead, I get a message that the installation is incorrect and to reinstall the program. Some of the programs like Photoshop won't let me install from a previous version if it is an update. I have to install 5, then 6, etc.
Is there a file on the old disk that I can drag over to the new drive to avoid this?
2. Is there any way to access the old emails and desktop? I had a couple of programs that I purchased online mounted on the desktop that I would like to burn to a DVD.
Thanks in advance.

In regard to Adobe: it used to be the case, up thru Photoshop CS1, that you could indeed move the programs to another drive by either cloning your old drive to the new, or by copying (provided you know where ALL the files are and copy appropriately). You could run off of either the original drive or the cloned drive and the programs would launch and run just fine. Such is no longer the case. Adobe has changed the way things work and you must install them where they are to reside. You may even have to contact Adobe and deauthorize the old install before you can get the new one registered--since I decided not to do the upgrade to CS4 I'm not sure about that, but I have heard stories. I do know that even Elements 6 will not run when I boot from my clone, although it runs just fine on the normal startup disk. Bottom line: your best bet is to re-intall the Adobe apps. You should not have to install all the iterations, just the one you are using, and it should ask you for the original serial number (the one you used before the upgrade install), and then the serial for the current upgrade.
Also, you probably need to make sure all traces of the old Adobe stuff are gone before doing the new install. Do a search on uninstall, it is not necessarily easily done. You may be able to remove everything necessary with the Adobe uninstaller.
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