"originally posted by Niki.
perhaps since you are using the honest to goodness, physical Adobe software you don't need the activation like you would if you downloaded the program from the website.
That was not what I meant. I was saying if the software old timer bought was indeed an upgrade and not full retail version of CS4, the Adobe would see this as an upgrade which the original already being activated, the upgrade wouldn't need to be activated again.
This is like upgrading an operating system that requires activation. Those don't need to be reactivated either if you're only doing an upgrade because it uses the same key code as the original software.