I think you really need to look at what you want to be doing with the software.

If you want to go full 3d and composite effects/objects and persons etc into real footage then I would go for Maya + Adobe AfterEffects and Adobe Photoshop as this should give you a sound basis for creating damm good SFX for films etc. (as at a push you can use After effects for film editing)

If 2d and simple 3d things for websites as well as spicing up websites than I would go for After effects, phoptshop and Flash as you can get good results using these.

As I said it all depends upon what you want.

(to be fair I think i'm a bit biased as used flash at uni for a year and it nearly drove me mad)