[Michael Morris]

Fireworks isn't *designed* to replace photoshop. It's a web graphics program where photoshop is a print graphics program. While photoshop has the upper hand in most areas, Fireworks kicks its tail when it comes to preparing graphics for the web and doing such things as slicing images for rollovers. Also, last time I checked (version 6 of photoshop) Photoshop can't do animation - Fireworks can. Even if Photoshop *could* do animated graphics it would be Adobe's way. Fireworks MX is reasonably close to Flash MX in the way it builds animations (reasonably - there are still a lot of differences). Also, Fireworks in general handles vector graphics better than photoshop - though that might have changed with the new release - historically Photoshop's vector graphic handling has been rudimentary at best since Adobe wants you to buy Illustrator for that purpose.

Fireworks also works seemlessly with Dreamweaver, the best WYSIWYG HTML editor out there, hands down.

I run Fireworks MX, Photoshop 6.0, and Illustrator 9.0 for most of my graphic prep.