CS4 Web Premium to CS5 Design Premium??

Hello there!
I have a question regarding upgrades to these two creative suites. First of all, is this possible? I found in some forums that you can upgrade to whatever type of CS you wanted (Design Pre, Design Standard, Web Pre, etc). I have CS4 Web Premium and would like to upgrade to CS5 Design Premium. However, I purchased InDesign CS4 on it's own. Now, if I choose CS5 Design Premium, will this upgrade my standalone InDesign app as well?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!

You can no longer buy CS5 products other than used licenses from other people, so what's the point at all? If someone sells you CS5, it will be a full license one way or the other - a complete package or the person's own upgrade including all previous qualifying version, which makes this a moot discussion. Likewise, your standalone ID is irrelevant in such considerations. Switching to another suite does exactly that - you get all programs that are part of the suite, regardless of what you had before, but at the same time may are stuck with the older versions of the programs in the previous suite.
Mylenium

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PS. I confess my vocabulary comes from reading the glossary of terms
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On most servers, public_hmtl is the folder where all the files reside to make the website 'live'. That's the name of the folder I have to upload all my website files to on my server as well.
Without seeing the code produced by Kompozer, and guessing it is a WYSIGWYG editor, then I'd strongly suggest that you start from new :-) Seeing as you only have one page at the moment, it won't be a monumental task to start over.
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/first_cs4_website_pt1.html
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Dreamweaver/10.0_Using/WS42d4a1c0291fbe4e59147ede1232ff9686c-8 000.html
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http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw_templates.html
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Hi
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Hi all!
Sorry for my english speaking...
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Cutomer support on this issue is attrocious.
Here is what I asked them:
"Can you please tell me how to install the Content DVD in CS4 Web Premium? This is the DVD that contains the PDF manuals, Fonts and s
amples / tutorials for Fireworks and Photoshop.
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me to insert any further DVDs. All of the software from the Application 1 and 2 DVDs seems to have installed correctly.
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that references a program called "autoplay.exe", but the latter isn't present on the DVD. Could this be the problem?
I would be grateful for any suggestions."
This is their reply:
"Hello ????????
Thanks for contacting Adobe's Support, My name is ??????? and I am
responding to you in reference to your Web Request posted on 09/03/2009,
regarding you want to know install the Creative Suite Premium and its
related softwares . I am really thankful to you for showing interests in
our products.
I wants to inform you that you need to install the first disk then you
can install the second disk as per issue i wants to indorm you that if
you dont have the adobe reader then you cannot view the pdf file from
this .For that first af all you need to install the Creative Suite
Premium.If you have any confusions regarding this i would request you
please call to the techical support for this as it is supported by us on
phone as well.
Warm Regards
Adobe Support"
All very polite, but totally useless. They clearly haven't understood a word I said.

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Message was edited by: Tim Rogers - spelling

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