Earlier versions to CS5

We do mostly book work, InDesign CS3, Windows and I'm wondering about opening our CS3 files in CS5.
We use the single line composer almost exclusively and I'm wondering how much reflow we might see when opening a file created in CS3 in CS5. I thought I saw a comment in another post that said text won't reflow until you make changes. I was assuming InD hyphenated and justified every time a file was open, no? And would just the paragraph in which you're making changes reflow the entire document?
If opening CS3 files in CS5 is going to cause any reflow at all I'll have to try and find a way to determine whether a file was created in CS3 before opening it in CS5 since CS5 doesn't seem to warn that the file was created in CS3. Has anyone come up with anything to manage this?
I'm fairly certain I can write a script to run on open (I think) that will read the file binarily to determine the version but it will take some doing.
Thanks for the help,
Ken

Thanks Bob, I'll check that guy out.
Something interesting just happened with some CS3 files we sent to a client, which they opened and worked on extensively in CS5. They are, I'm certain, completely unaware as to the problems that can potentially occur. So I'm sure they simply opened the files in CS5.
They sent the files back in two batches, the first batch not showing any oddities. In the second batch, however, when H&J violations is turned ON, EVERY line of every paragraph except the last in each paragraph was highlighted yellow, most the darkest yellow.
In the style lists there is no plus sign next to the style name showing an override, yet if we reapply the style from the tool bar menu or we Ctrl+Shift click (Windows) the paragraph symbol at the bottom of the paragraph style panel, the yellow becomes what we would expect to see, only sometimes does the paragraph re-run.
Another interesting thing is that when the style name is clicked in the paragraph style panel it does NOT fix the paragraph. In CS3 this would have had the same affect as applying it from the tool bar menu so perhaps that's just a new change in CS5.
I'm inclined to put this down to the conversion from CS3 to CS5. You think?
I'm trying to muster the fortitude to call the designer and try and get him to explain what they may have done different with the two batches. I'll post back if I find out anything.
Thanks again for the soxy tip,
Ken

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