Canon USB support and Adobe CS2

I have a 17" 2.16 MacBook Pro. It came preinstalled with 10.4.6 I think the laptop is great, but the OS has broken some of my software applications. For example, I can no longer shoot tethered with my Canon 5D to the application Capture One. Nor can I shoot tehtered using Canon's software. I have been told by Canon and by Capture One that it is something that occured in 10.4.6 that no longer supports Canon's USB connection. Other users have said that it works in 10.4.5, but I cannot roll back to 10.4.5, because my machine came with 10.4.6 installed. Please tell me that this is something that will be fixed ASAP. Also, I have been having increasing difficulties with Adobe CS2 software. Crashes lots, or flat out refuses to open files. No support from Adobe yet and it appears like there wont be any time soon. I thought Rosetta could handle this stuff adequately. So What's Up With This?

CS2 worked fine and not even that slow (much better than an old G4 PB) when I was running it until CS3 came out. There is nothing endemic with MBP and CS2 at all.
Can the Canon connect to the MBP with USB for something simple like mounting for copying files over?

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