Upgrading to CS5 from CS2

When it comes to installing CS5, what happens to CS2?
Is it like the old days when the two versions wold happily sit side-by-side (except for Acrobat) or does CS2 have to be removed?
And file associations are linked to to the newer applications?
Iechyd da! John
23:51 02/11/2010 GMT

Thanks, Bob.
I'm hoping to have CS5 in place for Christmas - one reason being that I'm getting too many files that AI and Acrobat complain about as they've been created using a more recent version.
Iechyd da! John
15:33 03/11/2010 GMT

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