Not accepting serial number after reinstall

I am working with CS3 - Design Suite.
I recently installed a CS4, in addition, to check out some of the new features. (It was installed from a friend's disk, but was already active on 2 computers - so I was just testing for 30 days).
Once the 30 days were up, I unistalled CS4 (the proper way in Windows 7). As far as I could see there were no traces of files left. Even downloaded the Adobe Cleaner afterwards and CS4 was not available to choose from the list of installed programs.
Then I tried opening Illustrator CS3 and got an error (forgot exactly what is said - happened with InDesign too). I was prompted to reinstall CS3. Since only Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat seemed to be affected, I chose just those to reinstall. I was prompted to insert the CS4 discs as well as several points during the process to "clean up shared files". The notification said it was complete and I restarted the system.
Everything seems to work fine until...
I try to save and Illustrator .eps - I get the error message "Can't save the illustration. Can't print the illustration."
And - Acrobat 8 asks for a serial number for activation - the serial number from my CS3 Design suite is "not valid".
Any solutions? Or ideas to what's going on?

Just wanted to update this thread...
Apparently these issues were caused by incompatibility/installer issues between CS3 and CS4.
I uninstalled CS3, the correct way through Windows 7 Uninstall/Remove Programs. I ran the CS5 Cleaner tool, though it said there was nothing found. I used a free registry cleaning tool - just in case.
Then I reinstalled CS3 completely and everything seems to be in working order!
Thanks to everyone on the forums and to Jeff Wright for his helpful answer.

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