CS3 Design Standard Upgrade Options

OK, this may be a very simple question but I am looking for some advice. I am looking to upgrade to CS3 Design Standard.
At present I have Illustrator 10, Photoshop 7, In-Design 2, and Acrobat Professional 5.0 (I think). All of these came bundled in Design Collection 6.
Looking at the options for upgrading to CS3 Design Standard, there appears to be no option for upgrading from Design Collection only previous CS versions. There is an option from upgrading from 1 product to CS3, however I have more than one product. Are there options to upgrade from Design Collection?
It appears that it is cheaper to upgrade all the products individually than to upgrade to CS3 from one product. What advantages are there to upgrading to the CS3 Design Standard rather than upgrading the individual software to the CS3 versions.
Many Thanks

If you go to the suite, you'll get Dreamweaver, Flash, and some extras
in Bridge. It's your call. Do the math but as you've discovered, there's
no upgrade path from multiple products and judging from the versions you
have, this is your last chance to upgrade to a suite or individual
applications.
The current eligibility requirement is a version no more than three
versions old.
Bob

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