Studio 8  Flash cs3

I have just purchased an upgrade from macromedia flash pro 8 to flash cs3. It now turns out we are running macromedia studio 8 serials althouth nobody uses any of the other apps.
After speaking to Adobe support they said they said it ok to get an unlock whatever that is to get the upgrade installed. And gave me the support number. After ringing the number as requested and explaining I was then told it was an "unacceptable" upgrade. Can anyone give me any feedback can you do this or do just send cs3 back and forget the whole thing.

So it looks like 1 part of adobe support disagrees with the other at the moment....

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