Export CS2 action for CS3?

I have both AI-CS2 and AI-CS3 on my machine because of a new install of CS3 rather than an upgrade. This means any actions I had in CS2 aren't available now in CS3. I was hoping importing them wouldn't be too hard, but apparently it is. The only Actions file I see is for the defaults:
[Applications / Adobe Illustrator CS2 / Presets / Actions / Default_Actions.aia]
Can anyone tell me if there's another file like this for my customized actions and where it would be, so I can import it into my CS3 application?
Help much much much appreciated.
Rob

I was looking for the export option and didn't see it. Finally saw "Save Action . . ." and the light bulb went off. Why my eye missed this earlier, I don't know. Now if there were only a way to erase stupid questions on this forum . . .
Thanks, Kurt.
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