which of the files are necessary to dl it?

Depends if you only want to install individual products or want the entire suite.

This is interesting. It's not the FULL suite (no After Effects), but it's an impressive collection of software, and really, back then, anything you could do with After Effects you could do with Premier.

It's very cool, CS2 is what I learned on, and would make a huge upgrade to my setup here.

Technically AE wasn't part of CS during this time. (it was 7.0)

Interesting they don't have it as a separate download. They have Audition 3.0 which is a CS3-era app though for free (and was never part of CS)

Was it not? I was in school at the time, our AE was linked up through CS2... update or something for users who purchased everything maybe?