Sorry, Chester, it was not my intent to answer my question myself and certainly not based on an assumption.
I see your point, and I agree with it. In fact, my thoughts went in the same direction, but you expressed it more clearly than I could.
People running Win 98 or OSX are already left behind right now, as are puters that were state of the art a few years ago. Photopshop 7 uses that irritating pop up when you decide not to save a flattened copy to ensure backwards compatibility. With 64 bit taking over in perhaps a year, perhaps two, we will all be forced to choose. etc etc...
Indeed, we are on the same wavelength here.
And indeed, everyone has to decide for himself. Letting go of one, or perhaps two upgrades won't do much harm. This won't resolve the loss of privacy issue, but if you visit that link (www.grc.com ) and go to shields up, you get an idea what your browser displays all the time, and how nearly everyone has a unique code that identifies, and that is much worse that spyware.
Pierre, and Jonbalza: simply try changing the extension into "axa" or something like that (question to remember what it was..."old" can refer to anything...) and if all works, well, then there is no problem. And if things do not work anymore, then that's life.
Curious Labs had to get it out of Poser5 in their first update...Adobe gambles, and they may win, or lose...
Some people have PS7 making contact with the internet all the time. I never had this.
