Basically it does, else you probably wouldn't have upgraded. ;-)

Try highlighting .png, delete the reference, and reloading it. That should
save the changes to the registry.

HTH

Steve


"digitalus media" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> ever since i upgraded from studio 8 to cs3 dreamweaver continues to look
> for
> fireworks 8 when it opens a png file. i have set the correct path to
> fireworks.exe in dreamweaver preferences, which it ignores. i read one
> older
> post about manually editing the registry, but give me a break. i bought
> this
> upgrade with the reasonable expectation that it would basically work.
>