Adobe CS2 WARNING

Not long after installing 10.5, I tried to open Illustrator CS2 for the first time and it crashed. Checking adobe.com, I found a prominent article on Leopard compatibility, where they state that there may well be problems with CS2 AND THEY WILL NOT FIX THEM.
To quote them, "While older Adobe applications may install and run on Mac OS X Leopard, they were designed, tested, and released to the public several years before this new operating system became available. You may, therefore, experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution. Older versions of our creative software will not be updated to support Mac OS X Leopard."
What incredible sleezeballs. And, yeah, I'm being polite.
It's not like CS2 is all that old, or was all that cheap.

Did a clean install of Leopard and have gradually been adding apps. CS2 is running beautifully so far (Bridge, Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator--I don't use Go Live), and the speed while launching, opening files, and working is dramatically better than in Tiger. Printing seems to work everywhere. I ran the Apple Hardware Test from my old install disk before applying Leopard. Haven't tried scanning into PS yet, but so far, so good.
However, I feel for those who are having problems. It would be a lot classier of Adobe to put out at least one more update of CS2, one that makes it Leopard compliant.
If all else fails, try stripping out every last piece of the app and reinstalling CS2 from the disks. Don't forget to delete the folders Adobe places in the ~/Documents folder; I couldn't complete my install until I finally figured out to do this.

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