well, hoepfully the next updates to FCP, the big ones, will upgrade anywhere form 1.0 on up, but I sort of doubt it. This sucks for people who get a clean install everytime they update the system. 9's on its way out, so this could be a problem. What I'd like to see is a trade in progam. You would send in your disks and your liscences from previous generations, and they return you a full program at the current version. I wouldn't think this wuld make costs higher.