What a P.I.A. error from CS3 Master Collection?

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I have tried everything to fix this including uninstalling, deactivating, reinstalling and wasting 1.5 hours of my life talking to a nice lady in India on Adobe's so-called 'tech support line' who told me that "Adobe CS3 does not support Vista 64bit at this time" and .5 hours typing up and sending an e-mail to Adobe Support only to have it 'cancelled' with a nice message that said, "Your complimentary period of support has expired." As much fun as violence would be in aiding in the expiration of the jack@$$ who came up with that idea would be, I would much prefer to get an answer as to how to get rid of the following error code:
Error!: Please run this program from the Administrator account so it can set up your license. Once the license is set up, you can run it from any account."
Here's the thing sparky, the account you're giving me yon error message happens to be the administrator account. Second, this is a bug because it only does it when Premeire and AFX (only two of the programs my co' relies on most) start up. Weirder thing is; on Premiere the error kicks in only during the initial splashscreen and it is unable to display the 'OK' button (empty space where it should be.) Weirder still, when AFX starts up the error message pops up 10 (count'em 10) times and after you close the 10th one, you can use AFX with no problem. Also, it won't permanently put my registration info into the license no matter how many times I register (lost count at 7) I figure since Adobe is so hardcore about anti-piracy they would've come down by now to investigate and maybe I could get some @#$#%%#&*%$!!! answers.
I know the software works as it had been on the same machine which previously was setup for WinXP Pro 32bit. When the system was upgraded for Vista Biz 64bit, the drive was wiped and all software was reinstalled from scratch. Everything worked fine for a week and then this stupid error message started up, but only on Premiere. After deactivating and reinstalling and using most of the many fixes for the vile Flex Net license suggested in the forums now it just does it on the aforemention programs. This is a legit copy as it was purchased from the Adobe Store.
Has anyone else had / have this issue and does anyone know how to fix this?

Answer 1

Here's the cause of the problem and 1 fix.
When FlexNet tries to setup the license when AFX or Premiere opens it conflicts with Vista's installation protection protocols and gets blocked. The error messages can be stopped simply by going into the administrator account and turning off the User Access Control in the User Accounts section of Control Panel. Funny thing is, this does work but you have to leave the UAC off for it to keep working thus losing the protection. This is a straight up bug that Adobe should have a patch for particularly since it only occurs when you startup Premeire or AFX. Why they don't have a patch for this is just plain lazy.