Do Flash MX files work in Flash CS3?

I was going to download a template that requires Flash MX
2004, but I've only used Flash 8 and the new one. Will this file be
compatible? It's an .fla file so I'm assuming it'll work, but I'm
kinda new at this and figured I'd make sure. That and not having
used MX, I don't know if the features are the same.

No, they do not. Alchemy depends on features present only in
Flash Player 10, which CS3 can not export.

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