Photoshop CS2 + Leopard problem

My serious annoyance with Apple (releasing Leopard in such crappy shape) and Adobe (refusing to support CS2) grows:
Have been working a lot in Photoshop CS2 this weekend. Keep running into an issue where Photoshop stops taking input into a form box and I have to restart Photoshop. This seems overly similar to the Firefox form issues. ???
Rectangular Marquee Tool > Fixed Aspect Ratio > Width
The first couple times that I enter a width, all's fine. But then it stops allowing me to change the value in this field. It just won't. Until I restart.

Beerzie Boy wrote:
I guess what I find galling is that Adobe is acting as if this product is not supported, and people don't seemed to be fazed by this. This version is less than two years old, for cryin' out loud! Why should I have to upgrade?
And software companies wonder why people pirate their software.
Well, I guess their position is that you did choose to upgrade to Leopard. I mean, if CS2 just stopped working one day under Tiger, gave up the ghost without warning, that'd be one thing, but CS2 was never certified to work under Leopard.
I personally understand your wanting to upgrade to Leopard and hoping that CS2 would work -- hey, we're human -- but I just can't agree that the resulting incompatibility justifies piracy.

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