Fireworks won't open in Lion, says it's a PowerPC application?

Hi. I'm trying to open Adobe Fireworks CS5 in Lion OS X 10.7.2. However, Lion won't open it? Any thoughts? I searched the Web some, and found something about Lion's dropping of Rosetta support, but this is an Intel Application (as you can see in the Info panel). I don't seem to be missing any Fireworks updates. Thanks for any suggestions!

Did you find a solution to this? You're right about Lion dropping Rosetta support. And you're right that Fireworks CS5 is an Intel application.
This seems like a perfect question for Adobe tech support. Have you tried contacting them? (If that's not an option, you might try Apple, since the problem relates to the Lion OS.)

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