CS3 on Windows 7 and 64 Bit

Hi all,
We are looking to obtain a new workstation for our graphics designer and we are currently running CS3 on Windows XP. The new workstation would be a 64 bit version of Windows 7. I have done a bit of browsing on the Adobe forums and found a couple of older articles and forum posts related to this. I thought I had read Adobe had tested CS3 on Windows 7 and it works but I was reading some forum posts saying people had issues doing the install. Also, it seems like most of the apps in the CS product line are native 32-bit, would anyone see any issue with running the product on a 64 bit platform? Right now, we just don't feel the need to upgrade to the latest version of CS. Can anyone let me know their experience with this configuration?
Thanks!

Creative Suite 3 has never been tested on Windows 7. You can find the system requirements for Master Collection CS3 at http://www.adobe.com/store/en_us/popup/software/creativesuite/mastercollection/systemreqs. html.
You are certainly welcome to try the installation and report back any errors which you receive.

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