I accidentally purchased a product that needs Lion operating system. I currently have snow leopard. If I upgrade, will my older software (Adobe Creative Suites CS3) still operate properly?

I'm currently running Mac OSX 10.6.8. I accidentally purchased a product that requires Lion or Mountain Lion. If I upgrade to Maverick, will this software run properly, and will my older software (Adobe Creative Suites CS3) still run?

CS2 is no longer supported without Rosetta, last available in 10.6.8
Also, my top popular Applications in the same boat:
Office 2004 and older including Word
Eudora 6
FileMaker Pro 6
AppleWorks (all versions)
Quicken 2007** (inexpensive "upgrade" available)
NB> You may HATE 10.7 -- I know I do, and refuse to run it. It eliminates the Save command, and implements Document versioning. I am too set in my ways to make such a fundamental change. (and then the changes were largely abandoned in the next major version).

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