CS2 Premium Suite on Mountain Lion

So, I just switched over from Windows to Mac and decided to buy the CS2 Premium Suite. After finding out that the activation service was shut down, I downloaded all of the CS2 Premium Suite files from the Adobe website; however, none of them will run on my computer. Whenever I try to install the files, I get a message that reads, "Adobe CS2 can't be installed on this disk. Installation onto non HFS drive is not supported." Is there any way for me to get CS2 Premium Suite to run on my new Macbook, or am I going to have to spend more money on a different version for Mac? If so, which versions of the CS Suite work for the new Macbooks? Or, which versions of Photoshop work for the new Macbooks? Photoshop is my main priority.

Cs2 won't work on mountain lion (os x 10.8)
Reason: No PowerPC applications are supported on mountain lion and cs2 is a PowerPC application and your mac uses an intel processor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%27s_transition_to_Intel_processors
Probably cs3 through cc will work on mountain lion, although newer ones probably work better.
CS6/CC are the current versions available from adobe.

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To: Adobe.com
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[email protected]
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