Can I upgrade my photoshop cs2 upgrade to cs5?

I bought a photoshop CS2 upgrade to the original photoshop. I'd like to upgrade that photoshop cs2 to photoshop cs5. I just want to confirm that this is a valid upgrade path?

What is "various vendors"? I'd be extremely careful with that. Unless you can be 100% sure this is an authorized reseller selling of his remaining CS5 packages, this may be fraud. Counterfeited packages that were replicated so perfectly they looked like the real deal have been around for a while...
Mylenium

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I think you are missing my point.
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And "obsolete" is a pretty relative term. With products as complex as the creative suite there are often features (or even whole applications) that change between versions. Many people I know keep earlier versions around, just for that very reason.

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Right click on the "setup.exe" file on the CS2 install disc and then click on "properties", then click on the "compatibility" tab.
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