CS2 with Leopard?

I just received my new shiny 24" iMac to replace my old 20" one.
I have been running CS2.
I understand that CS2 will not run on the new Mac OS, is that right?
I hate to have to go buy new software to do photo editing.  I use nothing in the CS2 suite other than Photoshop.
Hasn't Apple upgraded the OS yet so it works with older adobe products, like CS?>
Or vice-versa - hasn't Adobe upgraded their still used products like CS2 so it can operate on a new version of OS X?
I think it's been over a year now; more than enough time.
I do not want to pay for the full CS4 at this time.  I am thinknig of doing Photoshop Elements instead. What Photo Editing tools will I be missing in Elements that I'll have in PS? I won't be doing video, 3D, sound.

Your Milage may Vary and it depends a lot on what use you put photoshop to, but I've found that photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2 both run well enough for my purposes on my top of the range shiny new imac running the latest and greatest version of Leopard - using a Firewire 800 drive as a scratch disk, it copes perfectly well with the 8mb 20D RAW files I edit on it (and it's actually snappier for lots of purposes than the old G5 imac).
I'd point out that those bench tests linked to were with the 2006 models where the intels had similar amounts of memory and processing power to the G5/G4 units they were replacing. Now with 4Gb of memeory as standard and dual core intels (and with the top of the range imacs, reasonable graphics cards) things are a bit different running Rosetta - many of the old applications that aren't intel native run much better than I expected. (I've been using the new imac for over a month now so I've had plenty of experience)
My advice woud be to install CS2 and see how it goes for your uses. If it isn't fast enough then either upgrade or try Elements.  It's the pen tool and the ease of layer masking I'd miss in Elements - there are work arounds but they get cumbersome. (you could always use Elements for the stuff that can be slower like running filters and drop back to CS2 for things like the pen tool)

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