Given how many Macs are used by designers and Web producers, and how fundamental Adobe products are to their work, you can understand the panic.

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In my beta testing of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, I had no issues with Creative Suite 3.

You can relax: Ive yet to encounter any issues, not even with Adobes alternative file manager, Version Cue, which mucks around the Mac OSs innards a bit.

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The Adobe Updater worked -- though some updates wont install unless you have Mac OS Xs Rosetta capability turned on.

In Snow Leopard, Rosetta is no longer turned on by default (saving system resources), so older apps can crash, not run, or give out error messages when they assume Rosetta is available, but it is not.

Fortunately, Adobe Updater checks to see if Rosetta is enabled; if its needed but not enabled, it provides a dialog box to turn Rosetta on, then continues its updating -- easy.

The CS3 versions of Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, Flash, Bridge, and Media Encoder all worked as well.

Of course, I didnt test every possible function, so there may be some incompatibilities.

Which is what I think Adobe was really trying to say: The company notes it has not tested CS3 on Snow Leopard (and doesnt intend to), so its not guaranteeing -- supporting -- CS3 on Snow Leopard.

Ironically, Adobe lists several incompatibilities between CS4 and Snow Leopard, such as with Version Cue CS4.

If you think you need to upgrade to CS4 because you plan to upgrade to Snow Leopard, think again.