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Having to research and deploy a lab-wide deployment of CS4, I learned a bit about the Suite's underpinnings and why Adobe seems to be marching to its own drummer in many respects. (Warning: these opinions are pretty much pro-Adobe.)

The root cause of these restrictions is the increasing communication and integration between the applications. In some respects, Creative Suite is evolving into an OS within an OS. Changing the relative locations of OS directories can have "interesting" results. Adobe's tools for deploying CS4 to large installations have improved significantly since the last release, but pushing it out is still a fairly complex task.

I can also report that aliases work quite well to customize the apparent location of the applications. The PCs in our lab use an in-house metering system to manage the licenses we have available, so students only have access to batch files that look like the applications. These check in with the metering server and launch the program if a license is available.

Ric