Reinstalling XP over CS3 and Premiere CS4 without losing prefs etc.?

Hello people,
I have Master Collection CS3 (all programmes including Premiere Pro) plus Production CS4 (Premiere Pro, Encore, AE and AME) installed on an XP machine.  Unfortunately I have had a series of very unlucky system and disk crashes which I have been unable to bring back to a fully working state. Cutting a long story short, after several methods of repair, I can boot but the system does not operate 100% correctly, and I now also have problems launching either Premiere (CS3 and CS4) and Photoshop since connecting a DV camera (they were working OK before then). Premiere CS3 quits to the desktop when I get to the 'open project' screen, CS4 tells me it cannot communicate with "ImporterProcessServer", Photoshop hangs after launch.
So in essence I have decided the only thing left to do is to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows XP and reinstall all the applications :-(
I have looked everywhere on the forum but I need guidance as to how to go about this process and still retain my preferences, plug-ins, cache files, preview files  etc. - I have an old but very important project that I want to keep as much as possible in its original state, and that includes rendered files, references to special effects plus of course various settings. Plus of course all the activation/deactivation paraphernalia.
So, can please someone suggest me the best course and order of action to this purpose?  Shall I uninstall CS3 & CS4 or not? Shall I deactivate first? Can I just reinstall XP afresh and then run the CS3+CS4 installers confident that they will leave my settings unaltered? What about the fact both CS3 and CS4 had downloaded updates applied to them?
I would be very grateful if someone could please tell me what steps should I do in order to return the system to a working state whilst preserving as much as possible of the current CS3/CS4 installation.
Many sincere thanks in advance.

Thank you, but sorry I do not wish to sound stupid or insisting: do I uninstall both CS3 and CS4 as well?  I was hoping that if I do not uninstall CS3 and/or CS4 the Adobe installer might be smart enough to leave the updated files and my preferences.  Also, I have a folder called Adobe in My Documents, which obviously contains about 30GB of preview and cache files, if I leave it in place will the uninstaller (and new installer) preserve its contents or is it going to delete everything?

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