Superseeded application is not uninstalling

Hello,
I have an application deployed to almost 100 machines. I'm deploying a newer version of this application but the older version is not uninstalling. The problem seem to be isolated to one particular machine only. Here's the details:
I've created a separate application for the new version. Simple enough since it's an msi installation. Configured the supersedence setting for this application. Added the older version (currently deployed in production) to be superseeded and made sure "Auto
Uninstall" option is checked.
I created a separate device collection and deployed it to a few test machines, including 2 user machines who requested for the new version. Now, in my test, the new version gets installed successfully (old version is uninstalled if present). For one particular
machine, the older version is not being uninstalled and it's causing the new version to fail to install. The particular machine happens to be one of the user machine in production.
For the problematic machine, it seems the content for the older version is not even getting downloaded on the client machine and the uninstallation is being skipped before the new version's deployment begins. I can't recreate the issue on my test machines.
What could be special with this production machine? Why isn't the superseeded application being uninstalled?
Pman
http://www.pmansLab.com/

Thanks Peter for your reply and the suggestion. I had already checked several times and confirmed that the exact same version is installed on that machine. I can see that in the add remove program list of that machine.
I just checked the AppIntentEval log and saw something interesting. It seems for some reason the machine is detecting the old version as "Not Installed"
ScopeId_AD6690A9-FF5D-4C83-B2EC-064FDAD5DD23/Application_267a84d4-7e5c-48d2-b003-add93500dd36/8
:- Current State = NotInstalled, Applicability = NotApplicable, ResolvedState = None, ConfigureState = NotNeeded, Title = Salesforce for Outlook (1.7.102)
I checked the MSI product code in the registry of that machine. The same product code that is used for detecting the application. It's definitly there and the software is obviously working. But according to the AppIntentEval log, that application is Not
Installed. That would explain why the supersedence action is not taking place.
Now, I guess now I'm wondering why it's not being detected as installed when the MSI product code used in the detection method definitely exist. The condition for the detection is just to check if that code exist.
Pman
http://www.pmansLab.com/

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