Uninstall FCS3 & Adobe cs3?

I'm ready to do a clean reinstall of snow leopard as suggested by an Apple store genius.
Should I uninstall both FInal Cut Studio 3 and Adobe Design premium CS3 prior to the clean install or just let the formatting process wipe it out & then reload them from disk? Specifically, do these programs count installs & uninstalls? Same goes for other software installed?
Also, the replacement discs from Apple include both Tiger & snow leopard. Would I assume correctly that I don't need to load Tiger since it is Snow Leopard that I'm reinstalling?
Thanks for any help,
Ken

wouldn't deactivating CS3 send a false message to Adobe since I will continue to use it on that very same machine?
No, it doesn't make any difference if you do your next activation on the same Mac or a different one.
You get a certain number of activations with a serial number. Once you hit the limit (it's fairly high), you'd have to call Adobe and have them reset the counter so you can activate the software again. That's why they suggest deactivating the software before uninstalling the software, or erasing a drive. Very few users though would ever go through all of the activations you can use before you'd have moved on to the next version you upgrade to. So even if you don't deactivate the CS3 software first, it very likely won't make any difference.

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