To deactivate old photoshop cs3 serial code's

Dear Sir/Madam,
I recently stumbled upon 2 older photoshop CS3 boxes at our office.
when i tried to install one of these and activate use one of the two serial codes i got the error message saying the codes need to be deactivated first.
As far as i know it the codes are currently not in use by anyone in the office, al employees that use photoshop were upgraded to CS5 last year (wich we have 5 pcs.)
I have the following problems with the licences.
both of the photoshop CS3 serials are:
* not registrated to any of our employees
* not registrated to any of our pc / laptops
Now i am wondering how i can deactivate these two codes.
And truly hop u can help me figuring this one out.
Yours Truly,
Tribal-IM

Call support by phone.
Mylenium

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