pay more money) and purchase the newer version (even though the AA3 version was working just fine), and 2) they placed a shady 'free with no serial # required' version on their website (to cover their fraudulent butts), but offer no assistance when their download links don't work properly. I see this as basically a form of fraud because it appears 1) they have rendered previously purchased versions of AA3 inoperable as a way to get people to upgrade (i.e. After looking online and contacting Adobe, I was told they 'don't support' Adobe Audition 3 anymore. I tried everything and I kept getting an error message about not having 'authority' to open the program. Everything had been working fine until yesterday, when I opened the program and it would not launch. I purchased Adobe Audition 3 a few years ago.

Ryclark, you seem to be my only hope regarding how to fix this, as Adobe refuses to offer tech support for a product they have sold to their customers.