PLEASE HELP!!! First time user

Can anyone PLEASE HELP me!!!
I am new to photoshop lightroom 3.5, infact I am new to photoshop and have never used it before in my life. The very first time I installed LR 3.5 it gave me a screen where I must choose trial of full version, I chose trial, although I have the licence key. It immediately gave me an message stating: Unexpected error opening catalog... What catalog, I have never used it before.
I uninstalled the program and even when to my regedit files and made sure lightroom is deleted there, or I think I got all of it. Tried to reinstall it and just got the same message, but this time it did not even give me the option to type in my licence key.
I am using windows 7 basic. PLEASE can you give me a step by step guide or instruction how to get it working? PLEASE
Thanks

If you have a license serial # you should use that. "Trial" means the software is good for 30 days and after that you can't use it anymore.
If you are a beginner it would be good for you to learn the basics of Lightroom by watching the excellent tutorials that Adobe has on their website.
See here: http://tv.adobe.com/show/adobe-evangelists-julieanne-kost/
and here: http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-lightroom-3/
and here: http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-lightroom-3/
LR is a very demanding program with a steep learning curve. If you just jump into it you will only be frustrated.
But let me say one thing about "catalog". LR works with a data base where LR stores everything that is done in LR. When you use LR for the first time a new catalog has to be built.
You do that by importing your images into LR. LR then builds the catalog. LR does not "see" image that are on the hard drive unless you import them. That is a very important principle in LR and you have to keep it in mind. I could say lots more about "catalog" but I fear that at this point it would only confuse you. So please watch the tutorials - they're very good insofar as you see on your screen what the instructor does in LR - so you learn hands on - much better than a book.
WW
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