When buying CS5 upgrade, will a clean install be possible?

Hi!
I do own CS4 Design Premium. Afaik some (all?) products have been completely re-coded (cocoa?) to support 64-Bit on OSX. As I would worry about some kind of mismatch when upgrading (I'm a big fan of clean installs) would it be possible to install CS5 from scratch or has CS4 be installed on the system?
Greetings,
J.

You don't need to uninstall CS4. The CS5 apps are totally separate and are not over written in the install process.
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Daventry wrote:
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