Install CS4 over CS3?

I have a trouble-free installation of CS3 Web Premium, and have just purchased CS4. Any thoughts on whether any or all CS3 components should be uninstalled before putting in CS4? Or should I just do a parallel installation and have both? I have a few ongoing websites in Dreamweaver CS3- I assume they can be opened in CS4.
I have heard that CS4 Dreamweaver/Photoshop projects may not be backwards compatible with CS3. And also that uninstalling CS3 AFTER installing CS4 will create problems. Any comments on those points?
I thought about removing all CS3 components EXCEPT Dreamweaver and Photoshop, but that seemed like asking for trouble...
Thanks for any comments/advice/warnings.
--Eugene

I have a combination of CS3 and CS4 products on my pc and haven't run into any problems at all.
After installing CS4, I uninstalled all the CS3 products apart from CS3 Fireworks.
CS4 Fireworks was causing me a few issues, but it happily resides on the pc with the earlier version and I can open one or the other with no problems.

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Installing CS4 over CS3

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How do you know you are still in CS3 and CS4 is not installed at all , did you recieved any error message at the time of CS4 installation ?
May be the file association hasn't been changed becuase of which when you double-click any file it opens the CS3 version.
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Can you just install CS4 over top of CS3 ?

I installed CS4 on a clean PC.
No problems to report on the instalation there.
I am wanting to install CS4 on my laptop that has CS3 on it.
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Fantastic.
Away I go then.
To CS4 and beyond.
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Well, I've done it and they both seem to work okay. Was slightly worried as when I ran the updater after installing CS4 it updated the Adobe Updater and I thought that if it made it a CS4 version it would no longer update CS3 programs (Indesign and Acrobat 8 Pro). But it does, so I'll sleep easier tonight.
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Re-install CS4 over CS5

(also posted in Premiere forum)
What would you think about the possible effects of putting CS4 back in my system now that I have a clean install of CS5 (from the OS on up, still haven't reloaded everything)? I am still trying to get HDV mpeg clips to preview in Bridge and Windows Media player without success and Premiere still seems sluggish. Getting "file update errors" when I capture new footage.
This is in my dual processor/Quad Core 3.0, 8 gig RAM, Vista Ultimate 64bit, NVidia 5700 (1.5gig) graphics setup. It has worked flawlessly in CS4 before I upgraded to CS5. Previews, workflow, pretty stable (only problems were usually pilot error), overall quite happy.
So, in short, does anyone think that putting CS4 back in might give me back the mpeg CODEC support (external to Premiere - all clips play inside Premiere OK). Don't anyone suggest 3rd party CODEC packages: been there, done that and spent a week doing a clean install from ground up. And, "Yes", all file associations inside Bridge and in Windows have been set up. Latest versions of Quicktime and Windows Media Player.
When I moved to CS5 I also went from Vista 32bit to 64bit. All updates have been installed to that, but could that be where problem lies? My business relies on recycling footage from project to project, mixing and blending from nearly 3TB of storage, so bringing them all into a Premiere project bin to preview is out of the question as you all well know.
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Standard advice is to de-activate and uninstall CS5 and run the Adobe Cleanscript. Then install CS4 followed by CS5.
Otherwise you may completely confuse your system.

Re-install CS4 over CS5 Master Suite

What would you think about the possible effects of putting CS4 back in my system now that I have a clean install of CS5 (from the OS on up, still haven't reloaded everything)? I am still trying to get HDV mpeg clips to preview in Bridge and Windows Media player without success and Premiere still seems sluggish. Getting "file update errors" when I capture new footage.
This is in my dual processor/Quad Core 3.0, 8 gig RAM, Vista Ultimate 64bit, NVidia 5700 (1.5gig) graphics setup. It has worked flawlessly in CS4 before I upgraded to CS5. Previews, workflow, pretty stable (only problems were usually pilot error), overall quite happy.
So, in short, does anyone think that putting CS4 back in might give me back the mpeg CODEC support (external to Premiere - all clips play inside Premiere OK). Don't anyone suggest 3rd party CODEC packages: been there, done that and spent a week doing a clean install from ground up. And, "Yes", all file associations inside Bridge and in Windows have been set up. Latest versions of Quicktime and Windows Media Player.
When I moved to CS5 I also went from Vista 32bit to 64bit. All updates have been installed to that, but could that be where problem lies? My business relies on recycling footage from project to project, mixing and blending from nearly 3TB of storage, so bringing them all into a Premiere project bin to preview is out of the question as you all well know.
Sorry to drag on, but I love Master Suite a lot and would love to make it fly higher than it did in CS4.
So, does it hurt to back-wards-re-install products? (edit: I realize I can't open CS5 projects in CS4, just would hope that CS4 would slip the missing code into my machine to allow HDV mpeg to preview in Bridge)
rg
(in the snow today)

I'm sorry, but "get rid of Quicktime and Windows Media Player..."???
Did I miss something over the years but don't we need Quicktime installed for video functionality in CS apps and WMP is built into Window OS so how might one "get rid of it"???
Those are hardly 3rd party apps in any shape or form. Thanks for the conversation, rg

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There is no reason to uninstall CS4! But when you have multiple versions of an application installed, the newest one is the one that "wins" over older versions. That's perfectly normal behavior. Which means you need to be careful when opening a document and drag it to the correct version instead of just doubleclicking the document.
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I currently have Cs4, I downloaded it directly from Adobe, I have no Cd, I just have the serial numbers.
I have a year long internship and my boss wants me to download cs6 onto my computer. However, after this year I will have to uninstall c6s. I'm wondering if when I uninstall cs6, I will not be able to have cs4 on my computer anymore? And I'm not sure if cs4 is still downloadable from Adobe? I'm just worried that I will no longer have cs4...

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HI,
I am going to be installing CS4. Any problems if I leave CS3?
Thanks,
David

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Repair Permissions with Apple's Disk Utility before and after each installation.

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