I was just on the Adobe web site yesterday, you can no longer order CS6 in a box directly from them.  Amazon was nearly sold out already, I imagine small businesses and freelancer artists like myself are probably rushing to buy them because of this so who knows how long they'll be available.   Unfortunately, I just bought some software so my "upgrade" budget is already shot, I just can't afford this right now.  I have CS5, looks like I'll be using that for a long time.   Eventually however, I'll have to find an alternative.

I used to use Paint Shop Pro, but haven't since Corel bought it (ironically I used that until I could afford to upgrade to Photoshop).   Will have too look into that.   Thanks for the tips.