Originally Posted by photolady 
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.....
Perhaps. But previously when I upgraded from PS7 to CS, then from CS to CS2, I got the activation window during installation. Those were upgrade disks. And my computer was connected to the Internet each time.
I suspect that Adobe changed the activation process with CS4 (and maybe CS3). Who knows.
Richard