Image trace in Illustrator CC sucks!

Recently I bought the new Illustrator CC, when I tried to vectorise a B/W image I found that the new settings are different (and really-really bad), it is impposible to get a more-or-less good vectorisation, I'm very delayed delivering works to my clients because I can't vectorise properly!
I tryed to buy Illustrator CS5 which is the best for vectorisation in the Adobe website, but is impossible, Adobe told me that they are not selling Illustrator CS5 anymore, the most common advise I got in some forums, is that I should download an Illegal copy of this software, but I can't do it, I don't feel good doing this sort of things.
What should I do? I need to vectorise my illustrations with the same quality of Illustrator CS5.
Cheers
Kemelyen

Thanks, I will try vectormagic.I
I can't understand why the best Vectorisation tool in the world becomes the worst from one day to other, it doesn't make sense to me!
I guess I will end asking to some of my friends to install in my Mac their copy of CS5 (I mean, if some of my friends are using that version!)
Thanks everybody, except Adobe support, they are hopeless!

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