Fresh Install of Snow Leopard & CS5

I have a MacPro Intel early 2008 with (4) internal hard drives. I am currently running CS Design Premium CS4 from my Leopard 10.5.8 OS system.
I just purchased the following:
•  A new 1-TB Internal Hard Drive (My plan is to temporarly remove one of my internal scratch drives and plug this new drive in its place. This will be the drive that I will install Snow Leopard on as well as CS5 Design Premium Upgrade as well as migrate all my existing apps to from my current boot drive. Once everything looks like it is operating correctly, I will remove the current boot drive permanently, make this new drive the default boot drive and reinstall my scratch disk drive in the slot vacated by the current boot drive - at least that is my current plan)
• CS5 Design Premium UPGRADE
• Snow Leopard Install Disk
My question is what is the best method to attack this major overhaul?
(1) Should I DEACTIVATE CS4 on the current boot disk before starting this install process?
(2) Should leave CS4 ACTIVATED on the old drive, install Snow Leopard on the new drive, then migrate all my apps including CS4, then DEACTIVATE CS4 on the new drive and then install the CS5 UPGRADE?
I am totally confused on how to properly make this transfer?
Bottom line is that I want a clean install of Snow Leopard on the new internal drive and perform a proper install of CS5 Design Premium UPGRADE on that same drive.
Thanks for any suggestions.

1. Deactivate CS4. It takes seconds.
2. Install the new drive. Install Snow Leopard.
3. If you still want to use CS4, install that followed by CS5. I would highly encourage this since if you do need to use CS4 down the road, you'll need to uninstall CS5 first as the suites need to be installed in order (unless something's changed in CS5).
Bob

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