Indeed, it will be fun, especially InDesign, I always enjoyed a spot of DTP and I love writing (
http://www.lilserenity.com pretty much shows that) so, getting the best DTP package as I see it these days will be fantastic. That said, I have a bit of saving to do before I can afford CS2 Studio Standard :flower: At least I can get the Upgrade from Photoshop variant.
The RAW support is indeed something photographers will really appreciate there is no doubt about that, and the fuller support for 16bit colour is much more fully implemented in CS/CS2 than 6/7. Adobe Bridge does sound interesting, and one of those things I will need to play with to see how much I like it.
Indeed, unstable software is very annoying, especially if it dies on you just before saving! Photoshop 4 was the only unstable version I used, and it wasn't that bad, just not as reliable as Photoshop 3, 5 or 7. Painter has had its moments in the past but version IX (and the 9.1 upgrade) are very stable. Being a programmer myself, I know it is difficult to anticipate all scenarios in code to prevent crashes, but good error trapping is important. Thankfully we now have an incredibly secure foundation in OS X. I will upload some other pieces of my work and hoping to work on something today :flower:
Vicky