Converting a library

Hoping someone can help. I'm trying to convert a library that was created in CS to a CS3 library. The problem is ... it's asking for plug-ins that were tied to CS when the library was created. I still have them around ... tried moving them to the CS3 plug-in folder and at the end of conversion, it still fails.
Help?

Chino,
You can select all of your songs at once or any number of adjacent tracks and convert them. Click on the first song in your list, hold down the shift key and click on the last one. This will highlight the whole selection in between. Then just right click and choose "Convert Selection To" There's more on converting to another format at this link: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93123
If you are doing your whole library you'll have a lot of duplicates to delete. To easily identify them add the Kind column to your library view. Click at the top of any column and from the menu that appears choose Kind. Later when you have completed your conversion you can sort your library on this column and quickly identify the tracks by format and delete the ones you don't require.

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