CS3 Web Prem - Leopard w/ FileVault Issues

All,
Be aware that there are update issues with CSEWP when running on Leopard if you have FileVault enabled. I use FileVault for corporate security purposes but suffice it to say, this has become a significant pain in my side because of the following:
- Adobe Auto Updater cannot run for some reason. Adobe isn't sure why and they apparently are aware of this but they don't have enough information internally to isolate the issue and resolve it.
- Some updates hang and potentially can corrupt the program. After manually applying the Acrobat Pro update 8.1.2, I was no longer able to disable the Acrobat PDF plugin for Safari so now I'm stuck with having to launch Acrobat every time I view a PDF in Safari as opposed to Preview.
BE AWARE: Adobe stated to me that CS3 is actually not fully compatible with Leopard and even though they've had updates, the core of CS3 Web Premium was not created to support Leopard. They are basically just porting over legacy apps and tweaking them with updates to "run better" on Leopard. They probably should not have said this to a customer but, the cat is out of the bag and I thought everyone should be aware.
As far as updates are concerned, It appears to be a permissions thing with Auto Updater but here's the work around...
Run the "Auto Updater" as usual and when it starts to hang during the update, just select the 'stop and resume later' choice and it will retain all the updates in the folder: [Macintosh HD]/Library/Adobe/Updater5/Installs/... (product folders) > manually apply each update from there.
Also note that Adobe is aware of this as being a problem and their recommended solutions (trial and error) have been the following:
Uninstall and reinstall - ineffective due to permissions issues with Auto Updater
Uninstall as Root then reinstall as Root - ineffective, my FileVault impedes this.
Run in "safe mode" has no effect on the permissions issue
Manual updates are the only solution and if you run into bugs along the way, the torture is to completely uninstall and reinstall using the CS3CLEAN scripts so you eradicate all traces of Adobe from the Mac before reinstalling.
And the fun begins...

Jim this is all old news.
Adobe software has never worked with file vault and it is recommended that you turn it off to update your software. This has been a fact of life ever since file vault was introduced with Tiger.
Unless you are out on the road and are carrying sensitive material on a laptop I see no reason to have file vault on constantly.

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