I just installed the Adobe CS3 Creative Suite on a fresh install of Vista
Ultimate. No other Adobe products have been installed on this machine
before.

Whenever I try to run Illustrator CS3, I get the error "The Windows registry
was not in the expected state. Please run the Illustrator installer to
correct this problem. Illustrator will contine to run, but may not operate
properly"

I searched google, and found one other person who posted the same problem,
but with no fix. Adobe mentions the problem on their site and says it may
occur if you had uninstalled CS2. But, this is a fresh Windows Vista
install. I've tried reinstalling Illustrator CS3 from the Suite, but it
doesnt help.

I am getting the same error. System was working fine until today when photoshop stopped working. In fact, all the apps wouldn't work. I was told to reinstall, and then this happens.

What is going on Adobe?

We need a patch to get past this. re-installs are not accomplising anything for us, and we're sick of wasting time.

Please resolve this now.

Alex Alexzander

try running the application as administrator.
Right clicking on the illustrator.exe, and then select "Run As Administrator". It should work