Export an action from CS4

Hey folks,
So good news is my laptop lives again! However, I was debating reformatting my laptop and would reinstall CS4 obviously (or move to CS5 if I can afford it). Now I have a multi-step action in my Actions palette that I would like to export without having to recreate it (which I can do if it comes down to that) and have that moved to the reinstalled CS4 (or 5).
Is this possible or should I just be copying the actions by hand and recreate it.
Thanks in advance!    

You can save actions sets.
Just click the set name to highlight it, then click the little fly-out menu button at the upper-right of the Actions panel, and choose Save Actions.  You'll get an .atn file that you can load into other copies of Photoshop.
-Noel

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