I have followed the instructions on the link you provided to manually remove CS2: Manually remove Adobe Creative Suite 2.x | Windows Including attempting to uninstall Creative Suite. I have also been unable to uninstall InDesign and start over as the wizard was interrupted just as it was described above. I have tried the one that came on the original box and the one that was on the link I used to download the programs. However, I am unable to 'personalize' InDesign because the system does not like the serial number. Following the special instructions for moving certain files so that I wouldn't have the Insert Disk 2 problems I managed to get PhotoShop actuvated and running. My hard disk died and I am simply trying to get back up to speed with the new one. I am having an identical set of issues as outlined in the above discussion but I am using Windows 7. Re: InDesignCS2 rejects the serial number provided for CS2 special 'no-activation' versions.