Thanks for the info! Looks like at the least I can pick up a version of Photoshop/PS Elements that I might sometimes use.
In terms of Audition, does anyone know if the full CS2 Suite includes Audition, esp the Mac version? I'm on a Mac, and there is no Mac version of Audition 3.0 for Mac, but there is a Mac version of the full CS2 suite. As far as I can tell, Audition was part of the CS2 suite, and later dropped out of the CS suite as of the CS3 version, to be continued as a standalone product. I don't know though when Audition was made available for Mac.
It would be cool if the CS2 suite for Mac included Audition, but I somehow doubt it.
I don't foresee needing Audition much, but I do need to transfer a bunch of DATs. And back in those days when I recorded and listened to DAT directly, or transferred DAT>CDR via a standalone CD recorder, I pushed my levels since I wasn't doing any post normalization. Grrr, made sense at the time, but now I have a lot of master DATs with low level clipping (1-3db of clipping, once fixed). I used to use Cool Edit Pro, and it had a great clip restoration function. It would be nice to use Audition, if only for that alone.