Can I clone Indesign CS3 from a Snow Leopard disk to a Lion disk, or will I need to reinstall Indesign from CD.

I have a Mac Pro with CS3 and it has been updated from a previous version of CS. I don't have the previous version, so if I need to upgrade my Mac Pro can I just clone it (Snow Leopard) with the already installed CS applications onto a Lion hard drive? I am not sure if the extensions will work in Lion.

OSX applications cannot run on external drives because there are usually several "system dependencies".  These dependencies are wide-spread and hard to track down manually.
To "clone an application", you would need to clone each and every "system dependency", with the additional twist of finding the correct correlating Lion directory.

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