Reinstalling Adobe Apps to a Leopard Disk

I have just updated to Leopard and did what I usually do which is to do a clean install to a new hard disk and then migrate my personal files. I don't migrate the apps as I know there are problems doing this, and it gives me the opportunity to do a bit of house cleaning. I then reinstall the applications and update them to the latest versions as I go along.
However with the new Adobe activation system I have run into a problem. As a test I tried to reinstall Illustrator on the Leopard disk, but it came back with an error saying I have to uninstall the application even though it isn't on the disk. It must be seeing some files I don't know about, files that must have been transferred when I did the migration of my personal stuff. How do I find these files if there are any?
Apart from the inconvenience this is causing in wasted time, I'd like to be able to keep a Tiger 10.4.11 disk with Illustrator and my other Adobe apps, on the same machine as my Leopard disk. I have a mac pro and I can boot it from either the Leopard disk or the Tiger one. I want to do this so I can test the Leopard disk before I commit to it. I switch back and forth until I am happy with the new system. If I uninstall the apps on the old disk I lose this functionality.
Would it have been better if I transferred the apps as well in the first place
All the best
richard

I think it's more complicated than that. Because it's a second disc effectively this could be seen by Adobe's activation system as a third install which of course is not allowed. Which means I have to either migrate my apps at the same time I do my prefs, or uninstall on the old disc and re install to the new Leopard.
Whatever it's a right royal pain and I hate Adobe because of it. Why punish paying customers with this draconian system. Give us a little respect I say.
all the best
rich

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