Mac OS X 10.5.7 and Adobe CS4?

Hi,
I just purchased a copy of Adobe CS4 and then saw that it has only been tested up to 10.5.4. Adobe Technical Support was not much help! They said that I can install it and it will probably work, but if something goes wrong then they won't give me tech support because it's not tested for this version of Mac. I was shocked, since 10.5.7 came out over a year ago.
Since this is a $2000 program, I want to be sure that it will work before I crack open the box. Have people had problems running CS4 on 10.5.7? Would CS3 work better?
Thanks!

I've had no problems running CS4 on any version of 10.5 up to and including 10.5.8. But I'm not a power user; you might want to ask in Adobe's own forums; anyone with problems with CS4 is most likely to take them up there.
If Adobe denied me tech support (not that I've ever had any luck getting useful support from Adobe) because their testing and certification were behind and don't officially support the newer versions of 10.5, I'd be going 'round and 'round with them and it wouldn't be pretty. But that's Adobe for you; they're virtually a monopoly now since their buyout of Macromedia so they think they can do what they want.
BTW, in fairness, 10.5.7 did not come out almost a year ago, but 10.5.5 did, so your point about them being far behind in version testing is still valid.
Message was edited by: Dave Sawyer

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