Dreamweaver CS3 Backwards Compatability will CS5?

If I export my site onto a memory stick on CS5.5 will I be able to import it and use it on my laptop which only has CS3 installed?
I did a bit of searching but couldn't find what I was looking for,
Many Thank,
Alfie

Ideally when you work in the Dreamweaver and craete the website then you save the website in a generic web format like HTML or etc which can be opened by and web design tool and any veriosn of the Dreamweaver.
It is similar to JPEG from photoshop , it is a generic format hence I can open the same jpeg file in Photoshop's older veriosn, Illustrator all verion and any other tool that support jpeg file format.
Same goes with the HTML you can open the website created through Wordpress in dreamweaver because HTML is a generic format.
However you may have issue with teh objects on which the new feature of cs5.5 would have been used as cs3 doesn't support , similar wordpress file may not open exazctly the same as I have drafted it

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