Unable to install Photoshop CS2 on MacBook Air [was: Literally in tears tonight... feel absolutely sick.]

I've been a Photoshop user (yes, I paid full price for legit copies with serial numbers!) for nearly 15 years. Self-taught. Learned SO much and can practically do everything with my eyes closed. Well, today, I got shocking news when I discovered I cannot use my CS2 with my new MacBook Air. Mavericks OS doesn't support PPC things. Whatever that means. This is so awful and stressful for me. I never bothered to upgrade over the years because everything worked flawlessly... so why bother? But now I'm stuck. Even though I have a fully-paid for set of discs, they're worthless. I have been on this forum and online LITERALLY FOR SEVEN HOURS today trying to resolve this and I cannot for the life of me get any of the downloads or patches to work. Just venting. I'm sad. Just sitting here sobbing... and cursing... that there is no REAL PERSON I could talk to about this on the phone. This is way over my head and I'm so exhausted and emotionally drained and now I feel like this new laptop is worthless... until I apparently spend several hundred or thousand more dollars for a new PS?????? Ugh. WORST DAY EVER and ALL I wanted was to happily load my CS2 onto my new laptop and be on my way. It's just awful, like everyone says, how HORRID and NON-EXISTENT Adobe customer support is. I hate how they just send you to the forum (even though I'm sure all of you are awfully nice). Thanks for listening. Just wanted to air my sadness in case someone out there can help me with a solution.
Thanks.
Stacy

Your discs are no longer of any use, but you can download a special version that can be installed and activated.  Whether or not it can work on your new machine is something else to wonder about.  It is very old software.
The only option to install CS2 lies in the following linked web page.  If you have already tried this and were unsuccessful then you might need to explain more about what occured when you tried.
CS2: Error: Activation Server Unavailable | CS2, Acrobat 7, Audition 3 -
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/creative-suite-2-activation-end-life.htm l

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