A customer ran into similar but not same issue. They had installed a copy they downloaded from a P2P app. We haven't been able to get the purchased version to install. It looks like we'll wipe the OS and start over.
The reason I wonder if this is your issue is you wrote "Before installin the CS2 Suite I already had Illustrator 8 and 9 and CS2 installed before I purchased the Suite."
Bob
Windows XP Pro
I installed the CS2 Creative Suite then downloaded and ran all of the programs'updates. The Illustrator CS2 update failed with the following message.
"Unable to update AIRes.dll. The file on your system does not match the original Illustrator 12.0 file expected and it cannot be deleted."
I have no idea what to do.
Further information that may help solve this:
-Before installin the CS2 Suite I already had Illustrator 8 and 9 and CS2 installed before I purchased the Suite. The installation made me uninstall Illustrator CS2 before proceeding with the Suite install. I did that.
-Illustrator 8 and 9 are still installed.
So I wonder if this has anything to do with it.

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