CS2 Dilemma

System: 1.67 GHz PowerBook G4 running 10.4.11.
Disk disaster, but data recovered to new drive.
CS2 recovered intact, but not activation data.
All other apps running smoothly, but none of CS2 apps will boot.
Photoshop is a critical app for me. Attempts to launch result in:
1st Dialog: "One or more files in the Adobe Application Support folder, necessary for running Photoshop, are missing. Please run the Photoshop installer and re-install Photoshop."
2nd Dialog: "An error has been detected with a required application library and the product cannot continue. Please reinstall the application."
Have serial number, and called Adobe to see about reactivating. Was advised that they don't support CS2 any longer. Suggested I upgrade to CS4.
My understanding that CS4 will not run on my machine. Do I have any options short of entirely new computer? Should I try to reinstall CS2 without being able to reactivate? Should I try CS3?

> Grain surgery≤
Alas, Grain Surgery is not universal binary. :( It's one of the many reasons perhaps the most important one why I am not planning to move to a Mac-Intel machine for the foreseeable future.
Unfortunately, Adobe acquired Grain surgery and have more or less let it languish in PPC mode. To their credit, they did fix CS3 during the beta process to allow it to run Grain Surgery (not the other way around) natively on a PPC machine and in Rosetta PPC emulation on a Mac-Intel box, as early Photoshop 10.x builds crashed spectacularly the instant you tried to access
any of the four Grain Surgery filters.
Grain Surgery is as essential for my workflow as Photoshop and ACR are.
> have an old version of Photoshop (7) so I can use that number to install the pS CS3 update and the number from my old CS suite for my CS2 suite ....... I presume!
Not if you used that Photoshop 7.x serial number to upgrade to the suite.
In any event, be advised that Photoshop 7.x will not qualify for upgrading to anything once CS4 ("Stonehenge") is formally announced.

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    Joseph liftik - 11:12am Dec 19, 05 PST (#1 of 2)
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