Re-activate Adobe Suite CS3

My old computer died and I'm trying to re-activate my Adobe suite CS3 on another XP computer -I get the message of "too many installs - buy new license " - any solutions?

contact adobe support:  www.adobe.com/support/chat/ivrchat.html
they need to reset your activation number.

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