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Bridge is not only for images even though it maimly is used for that by most users. It can also preview both InDesign documents and PDFs, you use it for webgalleries creation and contactsheets and some other stuff too as well as for slideshows, adding and editing meta-data for files, just to mention a few things. You can also use Bridge to place directly from it by dragging and dropping into InDesign for instance.

And no, it is not a choice to install or not install it. It always gets installed with either the Suite or standalone versions. As for the speed, CS4 is far faster than any previous version. Don't judge it by how it performed once upon a time when it was a new application. It has evolved a lot since.

Derrick - the Navigator panel will not reappear. What is gone is gone. I've never seen a feature that was already taken away reappering in a later version. That will not happen.