Differential pricing between the US and UK/anywhere else

I'm just curious... can anyone throw any (rational) light on the price discrepancy between the US pricing and the prices for everyone else?
What are the actual differences between the UK and the US versions of CS4 that demand such a discrepancy? Since (for the UK at least) the language is the same, what constitutes a localised version that is worthy of these price differences for upgrades...
$599 CS3-CS4 against £515 ex VAT in the UK (equates to $945 give or take a few cents)
I know some smart response will be "you don't have to buy it", but as a professional, freelance designer I'd have to disagree with you... please just accept that otherwise we could go wildly off topic.
I don't object to paying for software, I just hate to feel taken advantage of because of where I live.

Since the "powers that be" saw fit to turn off the forum where I posted my issue, I'm going to repost it here:
Hitting a brick wall with Adobe Customer Service . . .
Alon - 05:19pm Sep 23, 2008 Pacific
This probably isn't the right forum to get feedback, but, it's the closest I can find . . .
I was left on hold today for over 2.5 hours, waiting for a manager, before the call was dropped. NOT FUN!
Basically, it's an upgrade issue.
In July, I upgraded to CS 3.3 (with Adobe announcing that this was the latest and greatest upgrade). I forked out $600 -- of course, assuming since it was the latest and greatest, that it would remain the latest and greatest for a reasonable amount of time. OOPS! Wrong assumption! 2 months later they announce another "latest and greatest" with CS4.
Up until July, I avoided the upgrade because of the CS3/Leopard compatibility issues. Even with 3.3, I have to reboot (on average) a couple of times a day to re-stabilize my OS. Adobe products bog down the OS and grind away on the hard drive to the point where all applications begin suffering.
So, all-in-all, I purchased a "brand new release" 2 months ago for $600, and there's another "brand new release" announced today. And they want me to fork over another $440 for that one -- every sales and customer service rep saying: "There's nothing I can do."
Was on with customer service again for another 37 minutes while I was typing this. Guess what? That freaking call was dropped just this second.
That's 2 dropped calls over a half an hour, and another dropped call over 2.5 hours.
Frustrating.
Been using Adobe products since 1988, and this is the first time I am unhappy with how I've been treated.
How about the usual array of gadflies stay out of this one and allow people who have legitimate concerns about this sort of thing have some reasonable communication.

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