Any success stories? PS & Ai CS4 and Snow Leopard

I ran out of memory too many times on my G-5 iMac with 2.5 GIG of ram trying to run PS & Ai at the same time.
So I bought a Mac Pro tower (Quad Core- 2.66 w/ 10 GIG ram). I purchased this reconditioned (at the advice of Apple Care) so that I could downgrade the system from Snow Leopard to Leopard. It would have worked fine, but the folks in the reconditioning department decided to ship me a new machine instead of a reconditioned one. So now I CAN NOT down grade the system.
I want a system that works! I have lost too much time with all these PS crashes- so I thought it would be safe to go with Leopard + CS4 + tons of ram. Well that is not going to work. Apple is happy to take the computer back- but I have bought the ram & monitor from a third party retailer. (I am stuck with that.)
I would love to keep this tower if I can hear from some of you wonderful power users that now (after many months of problems) you have found Snow Leopard & CS 4 willing to play happily together.
And yes, I thought about CS 5- but from the posts in this forum- it sounds even worse that what I am going through right now. (Having to restart my computer after Photoshop crashes because I have been going back and forth between PS & Ai and one or the other refuses to give make my memory!)
Anybody have any success stories?

JV:
I would be lost without my Alien Skin filters!
I was working in a perfect world: new machine, clean install of 10.6.4
Then I loaded PS CS 4 & AI CS 4- then the filters.
The versions I have were for Leopard & Snow Leopard (downloaded 11/09).
I only add the fonts I need & have been careful that they are full licensed fonts from reprutable foundries.
I am not taking any chances with this machine.
I use my old G-5 iMac running 10.4.11 for everything else. I am a Freehand user so my plan all along was to keep that computer for that.
But I also keep all Microsoft & web surfing on that machine too.
There is a good article from Alien Skin regarding installation in Snow Leopard:
http://support.alienskin.com/Article_84996.aspx
Good luck!

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