I use Photoshop 7.0 but am lucky and didn't have to buy it. About 4 years ago a friend at work who used to do graphic design was nice enough to make a copy of the program and give it to me so that I didn't have to pay the exorbitant price. Of course, now that I'm addicted to it, if something ever happened and I lost the program I would grit my teeth and shell out the money!

I'm not sure about the free option you found. Is it just a trial version? I have heard that GIMP is a pretty good program that does alot of the same things and not only is it a legit site, it's freeware!