Archive and Install Question

I have an old version of Photoshop (7.0). If I upgrade from OS 10.2 to 10.4.6, Adobe tells me I also need to upgrade Photoshop. But if I do an "Archive and Install" Mac upgrade, can I still use the old photoshop on the old system. Thanks - I am not exactly clear about this.

There is not an old system available when doing an Archive & Install.
The Tiger install options are as follows:
Simple Upgrade
Archive & Install (with an option to select preserve user and network settings)
Erase & Install
The Archive & Install method installs the Tiger OS new and archives the previous system as a previous system folder. When selecting preserve user and network settings, it does as indicated. All user and network settings, data and most 3rd party applications from 10.2 are preserved and transferred to the new system.
You cannot boot from or use the archived previous system folder. The archived previous system folder can be used to transfer data or any user and network settings that were not successfully transferred to the new system only.
After confirming all user and network settings and data was successfully transferred to the new system, you can (and should) safely delete the archived previous system folder since it cannot be used for anything else and takes up hard drive space only.
The old version of Photoshop you are currently using must not be compatible with Tiger (10.4) so if you want to upgrade from 10.2 to 10.4 and need to continue using Photoshop, you need to upgrade Photoshop to the version that is compatible with Tiger (10.4).

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