Spontaneous Deactivation of CS3 on Win 8

I have CS3 Design Standard, installed on my Windows 8 computer for some months. It spontaneously deactivated itself and the repair activation will not work - either online or over the phone. I found a tip online to delete the "Flexnet" activation files, which I did - the benefit being that it gives me another 30 days to work out this issue. However, the online activation still does not work. Any ideas?
Here was the flexnet tip:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/photo-editing/4208-adobe-cs3-cs4.html

Hi bholverstott,
Please refer the KB : http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-deactivation-products.html

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