Can I uninstall CS2 after ugrading to CS3?

CS2 is taking an awful lot of disk space. Is CS3 a stand-alone program or just an add-on to CS2?
Thanks

60 Minutes wrote:
Also, I don't have any documents in CS2. I was upgrading from PageMaker 6.5 and found out too late that you couldn't open PM documents in CS2. That's why I jumped to CS3.
Chris Baker
I don't know who told you that but InDesign 2, InDesign 3 (CS), InDesign 4 (CS2), InDesign 5 (CS3), and InDesign 6 (CS4) all open Pagemaker 6, 6.5, and 7 files.

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