Photoshop Elements (6 thru 12) questions

1) Updates for 6, 7, 9, & 12 on Mac 10.7 &/or Windows 7Pro 64: will the most recent updates include all the earlier updates for that version? If not how do I know where to begin?
2) How many copies of each version are you allowed? I have a desktop with PSE 9 & 12. I have a Mac laptop with Parallels. The Mac side has PSE 6 & 9. I would like to put PSE 9 on the newly installed Win 7 side. I don't know if Adobe counts the Mac/Parallels installs as one or 2 versions.
3) My installation of PSE 12 has a white background (rather than a zone 3 grey) which makes it totally unusable. I have been told that it should be able to change it to a background shade similar to my PSE 7 &/or 9 - so I can actually use it. I can't find a way to do it. Please give the step by step procedure.
Thanks,
Bob

Thanks for the answers to the first 2 questions.
As too no. 3: My monitors are all calibrated. I just compared the screens on PSE 9 & 12. The photo screen on both are very close to 18% grey, or zone 5. The boarder on PSE 12 is a bit lower than the 90% white side of a gray card, maybe 75 to 80%. The boarder on PSE 9 & 7 are more like a zone 3 (i.e. deep gray). As any photographer, painter, graphic artist, or moth knows the eye is drawn to the lightest & brightest color. In the case of PSE 12 that would mean your eye is drawn AWAY from the photographic image & towards the boarder. Nobody who knew what they were doing would incorperate that into the design of an editing tool.
There has to be some way to make PSE 12 useable. Until then I'm pretty much stuck with 9, & maybe 7.
So can I, or anyone else who got PSE 12, do to correct this problem.
Bob

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