Installing Win version on Mac via Parallels

I'm currently running Photoshop CS2 and the trial version of Illustrator CS4 on my Mac. I'm going to be purchasing Creative Suite for Windows and installing/running this via Parallel, which allows you to run a Windows OS and it's programs on a Mac.
My question is...will I have any problems in installing or running CS4 for Win seeing as how I have other Mac versions of the same programs on the same hard drive? I plan on uninstalling these to make room for the new ones, but of course Adobe leaves behind difficult to locate files.
Any help or insight is much appreciated. Thanks!

CS 4 will install under Parallels with no issue. Just make sure you have
a large disk image set aside.
Mike

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/dev/disk0
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   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2
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   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         443.3 GB   disk1s2
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/dev/disk3
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