Chris,
On Oct 5, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Criss Myers wrote:
does your package for Acrobat 9 include the /LIbrary/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PCD/ folder?
I think this is the folder that holds the license file database for all of the products.

I'll check tomorrow but don't think composer found that with a new and modified file snapshot

Cheers

Criss

Adobe's licensing is pretty goofy at times.
We had both a stand alone license for Acrobat 9 as well as the CS 4 suite. Layering CS 4 on top of an already deployed Acrobat 9 had no ill effects. Just make sure that the components are updated.
Our fun began with dropping Acrobat 9 on top of a CS 3 deployment. Since they use the same license database, deploying Acrobat 9 after CS 3 would break the CS 3 licensing.
What we had to do was to install and license CS 3 first. Install Acrobat 9 and license it, then package Acrobat 9 with the PCD folder which would then hold the combine license information for both CS 3 and Acrobat 9.
Not pretty, but worked.

That should work. Like you said, the key is to making sure that all On Oct 6, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Criss Myers wrote:
licensing is contained within the PCD database file so it can be packaged up as part of a base deployment.
Using this method, you could then create multiple deployment packages. One could be the base install, everything but the applications. Then just add/remove application folders as needed to get the combination of deployed apps you want.
Has a bit more overhead keeping things up to date, but should work.