There's a few new functions that have me interested, i just hate the frequency the series of upgrades are taking. at $150-ish to stay current it's getting more and more expensive... :) retrocity I feel that same. I bought Creative Suite and the whole Classroom in a Book collection at the same time to learn them all. About 3 weeks after I received them Adobe announced the CS version. I called them and agreed to give me CS for just the shipping charge. OK. So I decided I wouldn't install CS till I finished the books. I still haven't installed CS and now its CS2! Is there anyone else that feels like companies are coming out new versions more frequently than ever before?