Adobe Activation, Upgrades

Its unfortuante, but it seems that Adobe is only interested in taking your money, and then abandon you ?
I upgraded my CS4 to CS5, and when having to reinstall, found that I can't do so. unless you keep your old software handy, which I don't then you also lose your upgrade.
I don't know of any other Company that does this and I have been a OEM  (manufacturer of PC's) for 25 years, so have used 100's of different software titles.
Shame on Adobe, Are they part of a Banking Group, ? Just plain Greedy?

To mylenium
You Have  not got the full picture of events? I was persuaded to upgrade, and was assured by an Adobe Sales person, I did not need to retain my previous version, as I was being supplied with the full product. Now I am being told I must keep my older product to be able to activate the new one. I purchased the new Photoshop approx. 15 months ago, but need to re-install it.
I don’t think that it’s my fault. I bought the product, have the Invoices to prove the same, The product is registered with Adobe, including the serial no. So I assumed obviously wrongly I could install it & activate it again. Even if I upgrade to the CS6, it will still not work. And you think that’s a fair deal ? Well I don’t.
So you see you have not quite got the picture. I have the Serial number, but it doesn’t work. By the way I’m not the only one with this problem. There is no end of articles regarding this on their Web-Site ?.
Morph7

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