I have CS5 on a MacBook Pro laptop and CS3 on a PC Win XP desktop that crashed. Will I be allowed to install CS3 on a new desktop? I will access the XP hard drive only to retrieve some scan files?
You are allowed 2 activated copies. If you have not installed it on another machine, without activation, you should be fine. If not call customer service and explain you computer crashed and they will give you a new activation code.
CS3 Bridge was a real buggy application. If you are thinking of upgrading you have until Dec. 31 to get the upgrade price, after that it is full price.