[gekko]

Not sure why your wife needs a copy. If she's a student, you can get a student version for $200 (CS4). If she's not, and plans on selling anything she makes, the license of the student version makes that illegal. However, if she's selling, she should either work for a company she can ask for a copy from to work at home, or she is self-employed, in which case pay full price and write it off as a business expense.