Down saving from CS5 to CS4 in a batch

Hello!
I have a large volume of CS5 files to downsave to CS4 so they can be used on another machine. Is it possible to do this in a batch? I've tried a couple ways so far and I'm definitely doing something wrong as the new files still tell me they were generated in a new version of Illustrator. That, or the entire batch just saves over the same single file for the whole action.
If anyone could give me a simple walkthrough, that would be lovely!
Thanks.

That, and explain
.. as the new files still tell me they were generated in a new version of Illustrator ..
(because they are).

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To: Judy Schultz <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 12:46 pm
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