A few questions about Snow Leopard before purchase

it was first a french post that I translate:
salut, quelques questions avant mon achat éventuel de Snow:
Hi, a few questions before I purchase Snow Leopard:
1) le update est-il multilingue. c.à.d a-t-on aussi le choix de la langue comme pour pour la version complète?
Is the upgrade also multilanguages as for the complete version?
2) suffit-il de lancer l'installation de la mise à jour si on a déjà Leopard installé?
Need I only to install the upgrade version when Leopard is already installed?
3) les programmes tels que Pages, Photoshop cs3, etc... fonctionnent-ils sans problème sous Snow? Do old programs from Leopard run normally, are they all compatible such Photoshop cs3, etc...?
4) est-ce plus fiable de désinstaller Leopard et d'installer Snow Leopard complètement?
Is it more reliable to desinstall first old version of Leopard and then install Snow Leopard?
Who knows?

There are mixed reports saying some things work fine in CS3, while others do not.
Pages '09 certainly works, since it is available as part of the Mac Box Set with Snow Leopard. Earlier versions of Pages remains to be seen.
You shouldn't have to uninstall Leopard. The specs call for the lowest priced version of Snow Leopard to simply install on top of Leopard.
However, you should make sure to follow the tips on this FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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