Why didn't I need to activate my CS4 installation?

Hi,
I've just installed CS4 Design Standard (Windows) onto a computer that still has CS2 installed on it. Surprisingly, it didn't prompt me to activate the software afterwards - and when I opened InDesign to activate it from there, the only option available was to Deactivate.
Did this happen because it recognised an activated previous version of CS? Or has something gone strangely wrong?
Thanks for your help,
Steven

I was always under the impression that it could be installed on two computers, but to switch between computers, the software had to be deactivated on one and reactivated on the other. I'd heard that people got into trouble because they did this too many times and the software gave some kind of "you've had too many activations" message.
Thanks for clearing that up, Dov.
Steven

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