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Following up on VB's advice; the updated versions are always available online, and they're not locked or anything. Anybody can download it for you and burn you a copy. Your currently installed version, or the serial # you received at purchase will serve to activate it. (Only works within major versions of course, v1.x serials won't work for v2 updates)