Are CS6 layers compatible with CS5?

We have recently updated to CS6. When I created layers on a photo in CS6 then went to open it on another computer that still had CS5 the layers would not open. Are the versions compatible in this way or do all the computers we use need to be updated to CS6?

When editing a photo I was adding boxes and arrows. Each box or arrow is a
layer. I later went to another computer in the network that had not been
upgreaded to CS 6 and I could see that the layers that were created were
there but I could not view the edits that were made.

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Hey there PDX buddy,
I'm guessing from the rest of your username that you're not a professional user of page layout applications, but a sysadmin of some sort. So of course you'd be surprised to discover this:
Is it expected that with every release of the Master Collection that it means a major change to the product(s) underneath it such that they will not be directly backward compatible?
That's the case pretty much across the board for page layout applications. Note that it's not the Master Collection - many of the apps included do have pretty functional cross-version compatibility. Illustrator, in particular, I've found to be pleasingly verbose about possible feature loss when saving back, offering to convert type to outlines when differences between type rendering engines in versions were likely to cause incorrect text display, and so on.
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Tom Hogarty seems to think it might be somewhat code-related, John.
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