It’s just great organising software. I doubt I’d pay for it on its own, but seeing as it comes with CS there’s nothing much wrong with it. At a pinch, it can also be used for slide shows (for weird corporates like AMP that ship Adobe CS but have held back their MS Office to ’97! Hence, there’s no PowerPoint “insert photos” wizard, and on Win 2k there’s no picture and fax viewer that does slideshows.)
Bridge is cool, indeed. I just upgraded to Photoshop CS2, so I finally got to try Bridge. I haven’t used it too much, yet — but I’ll be using it a lot soon. I don’t think Bridge comes with CS (CS 1, that is) — but I could be wrong. CS2 for sure, though.
Oh, yeah… probably CS2. That actually makes a lot of sense… I needed Bridge on someone elses’ computer at work once and it wasn’t installed, probably because we’ve still got a CS/CS2 split on our desktops. Coolness.