Does your Photoshop CS2 occasionally declare its license is invalid?
 

Happens to me every now and then. Sometimes reactivation does NOT succeed and I have to wait on hold for 10 mins just for someone to tell me I've exceeded my allowed activations. :Oh crap

Thats what you get for actually paying for software. ;)

There is more than a slight truth in tht statement...
I remeber paying legally for office 2003 back in the day, and feeling so proud of myself... However the problems I had when I needed to reinstall, or when I changed and upgraded my computers, geting the legit SN to work was stupid...

Eventually i ended up using the bought discs and one of the numbers from a keygen, just to be able to use the software I had paid for ! LOL

I've ended up in a similar situation, I got sick of CS2 refusing to activate each time I reinstalled 'doze (even with 100% identical hw - go figure?), so someone sent me a keygen app. It's ridiculous that I have to resort to using that for software that I have paid for and legally own.

Adobe's response - deactivate before you reinstall. The problem is that the reinstalls are usually prompted by a crash.

Windows XP itself only complained once about too many activations, and a quick call with a guy in India asking if it was only running on a single machine fixed that.

cs1 was so bad I had to stop using it. fuck adobe is my thinking. -bmb

Happened again just now, 26 hours after I started this thread.

The only change I can think of since then is that I reinstalled my printer driver. Nothing major.

It's getting damn annoying having to reactivate.