PS wont except my serial number

Bought a new Dell. Trying to load Photoshop into it. Had CS2 and CS3 installed on my old Dell. Bad hard drive on the old Dell, cna not access it. I have PS discs from versions 5.5, 6.0, 7.0, Cs2 and CS3. Tried loading 6.0 which I believe is my full addtion and the rest are upgrades. Keep getting "Not a 6.0 serial number" message. This was a backup disc but I put the serial # on the disc. Will it not except it because the new system is Win 7 and 64 bit? Can't understand any other reason as I have used these discs in the past. Thanks for any help!!

Again, if you buy CS5 as an upgrade, you'll be allowed to insert the CS3 disc as the predecessor, just as you did with CS3.
If you want to run CS3 but you've run out of activations, on old computers you're no longer using (or can't make run to deactivate Photoshop yourself), you'll have to call Adobe.
-Noel

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