Thanks goldie, I will have to do that, a year is definitely a more reasonable timeframe! :)

mmitchell_houston - Each install requires a call home to activate it. Fair enough, I don't mind the occasional one-off necessity to put my main machine online for registering software. But why the need to keep checking it? It seems to be checking a lot more frequently than when SM had it (that was 6 monthly I believe). As for Adobe software, well you subscribe to it, it's a different situation. Poser is supposedly a one-off purchase, not a lease (although with these more frequent checks, who knows how Bondware will continue moving forward). As I said before, ZBrush also requires online activation, but doesn't cry and throw a fit if I've not been online for months (let alone a couple of weeks).

I too also use CS6, purely because it doesn't phone home. I'm not a power user by any means so the newest/latest greatest things in PS aren't really needed by me.