I beg to differ on this. I have a friend, whom uses the Adobe, going back to the 90's when Pagemaker was the flavour, his daughter bought it, when she was at school here in Singapore, installed it on his computer, used it for a while and then said to her father, now you can use it.
Hes continually upgraded upgraded, and now hes running CS4. He just pays the upgrade fees.
You just need to register to a the person with the student card.(keep all details for proof of purchases.)
Cheers ...