Last night I started rebuilding my powerbook from scratch (wiping the drive with 1s and 0s and repartitioning) just because there was so much bloat.

So, reinstalling all the important bits of software (BBEdit 6.0, Transmit, IE 5, Photoshop 5.5) I ran into a problem trying to register PS 5.5. It wanted a serial number, of course, so I opened up my old copy and copied it out of the About box, only it didn't work. After 5 tries I sought help online and found that it's only a partial number. The 'full' serial number has three additional digits after the number.

Now, I've reorganized my apartment entirely in the last few months, and I don't remember seeing a manual or registration card for Photoshop 3.01 (the version from whence the serial number originally came, several upgrades ago), and Adobe support was closed, even if they would help me so, being in a bored, brute-force state of mind, I sat down to try all 1000 combinations.

Luckily I hit it after only 200 or so... In the words of Nicci and Jonni, BLAR.