Yet another Adobe Application Manager discussion

Forgive me, but read so many here today with little solutions offered.
Hi folks,
First let me say I have no interest at all in the Creative Cloud. None. But, I do have Lightroom, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, InDesign and probably more. And have been an Adobe user since Pagemaker 1.0.
So, I had Photoshop CS5 and thought that I likely should do the update to CS6 which will likely be my last unless the business model at Adobe changes again. I do have Lightroom 5, but had to go back to 4 because of the bug for images processed with 2003. I await that fix, but I digress.
So, part of my suprise with updating to Photoshop (only) CS6 (with Bridge, etc and both 32 and 64 bit Windows 7) was the addition of Adobe Application Manager.
Now, if I run Update from any of my apps, they seem to be checking for updates just fine. I cannot be sure. But if I click the AAM icon, it fails and then tries to install itself again and then fails with a different messsage. Same happens from clicking pdapp.exe. I can get several different error messages including "Adobe Application Manager failed to Install to "another version is already running" (it isn't).
I have read at least a dozen threads here on issues with AAM and tried as many fixes. None have worked. And I now have maybe 15 hours into an update from CS5 to CS 6! I'd like to be done with this.
It appears I have no reason for AAM. And it cannot be uninstalled. I have nothing else CC that I know of. I have downloaded the stand alone installer for AAM7 and that failed to install as well. I have deletd the opm.db many times.
How can I remove this and still maintain updates? That's all I would like to do.
Does AAM download anything automatically? I would not be pleased if so. I assume if it finds an update it will ask me if I want it. I assume. I aslso assume it runs every now and then to check for updates. I have no idea.
Can I revert to the Update App I expected from CS 6? Something similar to CS4 or CS 5?
If I am stuck with this (I hope not) can I at least get it to work properly? Or remove it wthout losing anything for the above mix of CS4 and CS6 products listed above?
Could use some help. Seems so many people have issues with this and very few solutions for anyone that chooses to opt out of the Cloud.
Thanks.
~Bob

OK, update:
For some reason I decided to click the Adobe Application Mamanager icon again tonight and it opened, then went to updating itself automatically and when done had installed the Adobe Creatiove Cloud. I even have an uninstall for ACC now.
Now, since all i wanted was PS CS6, no Cloud, can I remove ACC through Programs and Features and still have a a working CS6 (licensed) and be able to run updates for CS6? If so, I think that is what I would like to do as I have no intention to run Cloud and its is superflous on my ssystem as long as Ps Cs6 runs as expected.
Thanks.
~Bob

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