Adobe Photoshop 7 & Leopard Incompatibilities

Hi. I wonder if anyone else is having this problem.
After installation of Leopard on my intel imac and G5 Tower (PPC) my version of Photoshop 7 simply refuses to work giving an error message of 'an unexpected and unrecoverable problem has occurred because of a program error. Photoshop will now exit'
No clues in that as to what is the problem cause but Photoshop CS works on both machines so clearly it is only native to an incompatibility between leopard and PS7.
I don't use CS and dont want to unless I absolutely have to. Any ideas anyone???
Thanks
TW

Photoshop CS version 8.0 runs under Leopard. I got my upgrade copy from eBay, new and unopened, for $150. I don't want CS2 or CS3 because I hate software activation schemes. Since my iMac G5 won't run the next version of OS X after Leopard (10.6 is rumored to be Intel only), I am good with CS version 8.0.
Photoshop 7 was not primarily a Classic Application. It was called a "carbonized" application which allowed it to run under OS 9 or OS X. This is why it won't run under Leopard. Photoshop CS was strictly an OS X application and required OS X 10.2.x or later.
So as you have figured out already, you have to upgrade to at least CS version 8.0.

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