CS4 and CS2

I may have asked this before, but when you get over 30, you'll understand.
I have a laptop that I use frequently, that has to run CS2 rather than CS4 (partly because of the Adobe limit on # of CS4 machines) and wonder if it is somehow possible to get some "essentials" out of the CS4 project that can be used in CS2.
Thanks.
Randall Martin, [email protected]

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