Using Full CS 2 for Mac to activate CS 3 upgrade on PC?

Hello,
I am a technician working for a small business, and they have tons of adobe software scattered about the place which I am helping to condense. 
We just deployed new workstations for the office which meant reinstalling applications etc.  Anyway, they NEED to use their CS 3 Design Premium. 
Here's the problem: They have a FULL version of CS 2 Standard... for MAC.  I go to install CS 3 Design Premium UPGRADE on their PCs, and it naturally requires a FULL version serial to activate.  You can see where this is going... the MAC serial for the FULL version of CS 2 Standard does not work to activate CS 3 Design Premium for PC.
Yet, they did have CS 3 Design Premium working on their old workstations.  I am assuming this has happened before because inside the case of the CS 3, there is a piece of paper with an Adobe Case #.
What I Need: Can anyone tell me how to use a serial key for the full version of CS 2 Standard for MAC to activate CS 3 Design Premium on PC?  They are not too happy about possibly having to re-purchase an entire Adobe Suite, just to activate an Upgrade.
Any help, directing towards a fix is much appreciated.  Thanks in advance!!
-=Scott

You don't. They were proably talked through on the phone to produce the challenge code and type in a cross-grade serial number. If they haven't written it down some place, you're FUBARd as obviously there's no more support for these old versions.
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