Flash CSE VS Flash 8, should I upgrade?

Question

I am using Flash 8 now and about intermediate user, should I
upgrade to CS3 since I have not mastered 8? Don't really know what
the advantages would be.

Answer 1

Adobe's prices everywhere outside the USA are out of line.
I'm in Hong Kong, where there is no sales tax and no VAT. But I am
still irked by the fact that an upgrade to Flash CS3 costs a full
US$100 more in Hong Kong than in the USA. Don't tell me about
shipping costs. Surface shipping even a partial container from the
USA to Hong Kong costs LESS per unit than sending it in unionized
trucks from LA to New York.
So it costs me less to ask a friend in the USA to buy Flash
for me at full retail, PLUS tax, and to spend $35 sending it to me
by mail or FedEx, than to buy it locally.
Meanwhile, Adobe and other software companies scream and cry
and wonder why there is so much computer software piracy in my part
of the world. Every time software companies try to rip me off I am
SOOOO tempted to take the tram down to my local computer center and
spend US$2.60 for a bootleg, fully cracked copy of Flash. No, I
won't really do it. But if they'd just set the prices the same
worldwide, I wouldn't feel that angry temptation at all.