I agree entirely with the last comment, Adobe do not look after their customers at all! Having originally paid in the region of Sterling 500 I do not expect to have to expend these ludicrous amounts of money to upgrade, it is of course even worse if you only have Photoshop 7.
Lightroom is currently on "special offer" around $199!!, hardly a cheap alternative, especially as it is based on the old Rawshooter which was almost free!!
But I have found out that if you download ACR 3.6 you also get a programme called DNG convertor. This allows you to convert your RAW to DNG and retain the RAW format. You can then open in CS1, provided you have the RAW extension from the last CS upgrade which I believe is 2.4.
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