CS5 or Elements for Drawing?

hello everyone. I know this doesn't sound original but I have yet to find an answer so I came here. I am hoping to get a Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet soon and it includes Adobe Elements 8. I am an artist and browsing around places like DeviantArt i find that most digital artists use the program CS5 or something like that. So here's my question: is CS5 or Elements better for drawing? I'm seriously thinking about getting CS5 but i don't want to waste my money if Elements is just as good. Please help me out!!

Elements is more limited in how to adjust the colors to black-and-white.
Lightroom has more sophisticated adjustments.  These adjustments are the same as in the Camera Raw plug-in for Photoshop, but absent in the Camera Raw plug-in for Elements.  The adjustments allow you to enhance the contrast and brightness of the gray-level for narrow ranges of original colors instead of a simple removal of color with a default color-balance or clicking on a preset that Elements has.
Here is a very verbose video introduction to the LR B/W conversion on an example photo, viewed best in full-screen HD:
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/bw_workflow_in_lightroom.shtml
Here is a step-by-step example with screenshots and description, from 2008, but the adjustments still mostly apply, except the vignetting you’d use wouldn’t be lens-related, it’d be the Post-Crop Vignetting in the Effects section that didn’t exist back in 2008:
http://layersmagazine.com/create-stunning-black-and-white-images-in-lightroom.html
These were just the first and third links that showed up after Googling for Lightroom Black and White.
BTW, I am a photo-hobbyist and use Lightroom every day, so it’s not just for professionals making money off their photos that need something fast.  For me it is more about seriousness and perfection and freedom.

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