Upgrade Pricing, CS4 Standard to CS4 Extended

Haven't been able to find anything elsewhere on this so I thought I'd see if anyone in the forum could steer me in the right direction.  A couple of months ago I upgraded from CS3 Extended to CS4.  Didn't think I'd need the Extended edition features so I saved a few bucks and went with CS4 Standard.  Now I think I'd like to go to the Extended edition after all, just to get familiar with the tools.  I've been hoping I could locate a way to do so for just the price difference between the two upgrades but I can't turn up anything in the store's upgrade pages ... the cheapest thing listed is the full $349 upgrade from CS3. Anyone know if it's possible to upgrade from Standard to Extended for just the price difference between the two upgrades and if so, how to go about it?
Thanks

Steve House wrote:
Anyone know if it's possible to upgrade from Standard to Extended for just the price difference between the two upgrades and if so, how to go about it?
Never heard of it being done but, if it is possible, you would have to do it through adobe customer support.

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