I quite agree Bruce

I stuck with photoshop 6 and illustrator 10 until 8 or so months ago

I stuck with windows 98se until XP and I will leapfrog vista almost certainly

and xtreme 5 ? - its not looking good - even if they bring out new vector tools its probably too late, CS4 has ones I need now, eg brushes and live trace/paint, and I'm committed - maybe xtreme 6.... who knows