Do you also have 10? There was apparently a very large change in the text engine and files made in 10 and before do not work well with CS2 (THAT I can vouch for). So if you have 10 it is probably OK to get rid of 8 and 9 assuming you don't need to keep them for update reasons (that is you bought the update and not the full version so need the older versions on your machine - some programs require several previous versions some not -- I am not sure about Illy).
You might want to do a bit more research on this before deleting
I only made it as far as 9.0.2 and then held off on updates for a while. I now have the CS2 suite and loaded the whole puppy. I just ditched the older versions and so far, no problems. At least for one day! And I freed up a chunk of memory to boot.
I know I've seen others who like to open some files in the older versions. I'm not sure why. I haven't had the need to. I was concerned about odd things, kind of like what you mentioned. But the minor text problems I can have would be easily corrected. In general, my worst text problem is recognizing the font and that ususally is because I didn't load the font correctly on the newer computer. So I can say that so far, I have been really happy with the new text features.
Glad it is working for you. If you ever have to use someone else's file and it causes a problem you can probably reinstall. Others have and it seems to work.
I started with CS and then CS2 so have no real experience with older versions except for the files of others. I do know that when I open an old file (in this case from Japan and a MAC) I can't do a thing with the text. Sure there are reasons why. Luckily I usually only need the graphics in the file
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