CS3/4/5/5.5/ and OS 10.9

As a service provider (imaging and digital lithography) I use CS3/4/5/5.5/6 and CC, all with proper Licences.
I use Soxy to determine with wich version I open Indesign files. Soxy works on OSX 10.9 Mavericks.
And I use the Linkoptimizer plugin to scale images for complete Indesign documents in batch. Also Maveriks proof allready.
What about Indesign CS3 and up on OSX 10.9 Mavericks? This Adobe site says Adobe tested CS6 & CC, but I need ALL of them to work!
I work with many different designers with as many versions of Indesign…
(I ask this question even before thinking about upgrading to OSX 10.9)

I found on my secondary computer where I installed Mavericks, an iMac, I could get the following to LAUNCH:
* InDesign CC
* InDesign CS6
* InDesign CS5.5
* InDesign CS5
* InDesign CS4
I don't have a copy of CS3 installed. I don't use the earlier copies as you do so I can't guarantee that you won't have problems. What you didn't say is what Mac OS X version you're using NOW. My impression is that there aren't a lot of under-the-hood changes between Mountain Lion (which I used before) and Mavericks. Mostly everything seems to work the same.

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