Computers are evil.

About 3 weeks ago my wife installed CS4 on our laptop. On Friday I went to use it and all of the main programs had disappeared. So today I reinstalled (failed), installed then reinstalled (failed). Then repeated the same proses logged in as my wife instead of me with the same results of failure. I then downloaded Adobe Support Adviser and it was also confused on what the hell had happened. It gave me an option to create a package to send to Adobe with a reference number for when I call. I will be calling them on Monday to hopefully get my Computer back on line for the business.