CS2 migration to Intel imac from G4mini

Hello
I know just enough about this migration thing to be dangerous so I wondered if anyone has had success transferring/migrating CS2 from a PPC to Intel imac (mini=Tiger & imac=Leopard) and can help me out. I have read Kappy's instructions & pretty much get it ....but I have sweaty palms about it. All I really want to migrate is Photoshop (could probably find the serial # but don't have a disk). Are there hidden CS2 files other places that I need to be transferring etc. or are all the things that I need to transfer in the CS2 applications folder?
Also, using a firewire connection means needing a special cable with the 2 ends being the same? Sorry if these seem like basic questions. Please advise!
Thanks ahead of time...
Beth

Hi macBeth08 -
Yes, you'll need a 6 pin to 6 pin firewire cable with both ends the same like this one -
http://www.usbcable.com/94-4466.jpg
I must admit when I transferred my G4 Powerbook over to my new iMac I had major problems with CS2. Although I wasn't going from an OS9 version, I had similar error messages to this poster -
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7295227&#7295227
Note on the link above what George Peters says - that CS2 isn't Intel native nor fully supported under Leopard. CS3 runs very well though and your best option would be upgrading to that if you can.
Because I had problems migrating all of my Adobe CS3 apps over, I ended up re-installing them from the original disks and re-entering the serial numbers. Now they run fine.

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