Upgrading photoshop cs2 to cs5

hi
i was wondering if anyone could tell me if its possible to upgrade only the photoshop program to CS5 if i buy adobe creative suite 2 premium?
any help would be much appreciated!
thankyou
sarah

You cannot upgrade individual suite components.
Bob

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Thanks for the help your answer was the best.
As a follow up I would like to ask how to avoid having to frequently reactivate CS5 which was my big problem in CS2/ My system is mission critical it has four bootable system disks and one non-bootable common disk (for temp, Internet cache and installation files. Using a "CasperSDB3" I backs up the active drive every night to an identical drive, which as just previously backed up to an external SATA drive. So in this way I have a highly secure grandfather son grandson set of bootable drives. The trouble with APS CS2 was that after having to recover about four times in five years the CS2 application when loaded would say that the serial number was not recognized and I had to have a lengthy phone call to Adobe support.
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I very recently just bought an upgrade from Photoshop CS2 to CS5. Everything went well but I don't understand a few, possibly trivial, things.
During the installation process, I in no way had to supply information about my CS2 licence to prove that I even have it. How do you guys make sure that someone who doesn't own a previous version of Photoshop isn't saying that they want an upgrade, thus avoiding the full price of the product?
Also, when you upgrade, does your old previous version license become deactivated? Are you suppossed to remove it from your computer or some other process?
Lastly, when I downloaded the upgrade, I downloaded both CS5 for 32 and 64 bit by default as they were both there. Do I need both on my computer and what's the difference between using/having the two?
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CS5 is no longer available. You'll need to upgrade to CS5.5.
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Your timing is pretty good. CS2 is the earliest version eligible for upgrade pricing. Should the current policy hold, you'll be out in the cold when the next version ships.
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