sorry to bring this back to the top, but no one ever answered if I need to back up the project folder or anything like that? And do I have to uninstall 6.5 or do I just pop in the disk for 8.5 and it does what i need to do without deleting what I've already created? And will it transfer over my plug-ins and my shortcut bar?

Once again sorry for bringing back my old question, but I figured it was better than re-posting the same thing.