CS4/CS5 License Transfer

Hi,
I originally purchased CS4 and have recently ugraded to CS5 both on the Windows platform.
My shiny new Imac arrives next week and i want to transfer my license over to the Mac.
Can anyone offer any advice on how to proceed and will I be able to keep say CS4 on the Windows platform and transfer just the CS5 to Mac ?
Thanks in advance
Graham

Colin M wrote:
You can't split platforms—you can have a Macintosh license or a Windows license, but not both. If you need Photoshop on both platforms, you unfortunately need two full copies of Photoshop.
To say that this continues to be irritating would be an understatement. Adobe sells an application (Lightroom) that can be installed on both Windows and Mac with no issues - you can have Lightroom on your Windows desktop and MacBook Pro with just one license. Why they continue with the customer-unfriendly single-platform license everywhere else is mindboggling. I say this as a Mac user who hasn't owned a Windows machine in about four years, but continues to see people having problems with buying the computer they want because of restrictive single-platform licensing.
As for the original post, you might have saved yourself some money by waiting until you were ready to switch to get CS5. You might get away with it, since it was so recent, but I think Adobe usually charges the upgrade price for a platform switch. At least, that's how I understood it when I did it - I have seen references to them just charging a processing/shipping fee of some sort, but I don't have any firm data on that.

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