CSS and Firework CS3 ... Sigh

Firework CS3 continuously having trouble running properly on my machine. After using it for a while, the left column of tool set will got all frozen for no good reason. I got so fed up that I quited using CS3 and using Firework MX 2004 instead. But MX 2004 has it's own problem:

• It doesn't provide as rich button transparency and shadow effect.
• It does not work with Aero class engine, forcing the UI to rollback to basic rendering.

On a totally different issue, I was being tortured by CSS for the last 24 hours. I need to keep fight and fight in order to get the result I want. sigh.