Misfortunes of CS2 activation!

HI - can someone please send in the cavalry?  I have a copy of CS2 Premium (education).  Published Fortunately this on my XP based Dell 745, massive good old fortunately until his disappearance ago following a disk failure.  Not much or so I thought, just programs lost all the data saved on the second disc.  Now I tried to install CS 2 on my shiny new Dell Precision running Win 7 64 bit.  Record all expenses, number series entered but failed to activate.  No activation available phone, no chat support available - well I couldn't see it anyway and I could not find any other FAQ support which seemed to offer an answer or assistance.  I was still not too concerned that the activation window said I had 30 days to use CS2 on this issue and I would request an activation code next time I launched a 2 CS application.  So far so good.  Went to another one to look around the site web Adobe looking for help that I saw an implicit element I could access the recording via the tab help in CS 2 application and also to record the serial number on my Adobe ID account - well, I thought it might help, I just tried to run the Photoshop CS2 element - it opens but I get a dialog box indicating my user name of Photoshop organization or serial number is missing or invalid, and the application cannot continue and must close - what it does when you click ok.

I don't know if I am being particularly thick or have missed something here, but I seem to be in a bit of a Catch 22 situation now and don't really know what to do next.  The irony of this situation is that, as I understand it - is not CS2 now downloadable for free anyway?

Any help offered would be welcome!

This article should be useful. https://helpx.Adobe.com/Creative-Suite/KB/Creative-Suite-2-activation-end-life.html

"The CS2 applications require activation to run. To run a CS2 application, uninstall your existing CS2 application and install a special version that doesn't require activation. You cannot reinstall from your original disks. »

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