Photoshop CS6 requires my re-activation and re-entering license every few days. Help please!

My PS CS6 requires that I go online and re-activate the product every few days.  I have had several support tickets on this and Adobe acknowledges it as a known bug but it has been going on since I first installed the product months ago. It is a huge pain.  It means that I must be online to use it, and every time Adobe resets the activation the product works again but several plug-ins need to be re-activated, too.  Has anyone else had this problem and is there anything I can do about it?  Thanks!

I have this problem frequently since getting my copy in mid May. It's qutie annoying. It can hapen every other day or maybe once a week. Would be nice to see a fix soon.

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