From InDesign CS to CS3 to CS

to the forum:
I purchased a new MacBook (Leopard 10.5.2) about ten days ago; and at the same time InDesign CS3, which I installed on the MacBook.
I opened a simple CS document in CS3 and made a few modificationsagain simple. Then I saved the document in INX format to see if I could open that in CS (on a mac running OS 10.2.8.). No go: "This is not a valid InDesign Interchange document".
Is this possible, and if so, am I going about it in the right way? (I also want to be able to
start a new document in InDesign CS3 and save downwards to CS. My documents are text and diagrams, no color; the diagrams are created using only InDesign's drawing tools.)
Thank you,
Roger Purves

to everyone who replied so quickly:
It really helps to know that I can
run InDesign CS3 on two machines,
although it still means a fair
amount of effort on my part.
I try to stay far back
from the frontier as possible.
Why such timidity? Well
the new MacBook (10.5.2)
can't communicate with
my incredibly simple minded
network at home, based on
one (Apple) Airport Extreme
Base station. Many guests
using macs running versions
of Tiger, Panther, Jaguar have
been able to get on this network.
The lack of a modicum of backword
compatability in InDesign is a puzzle to me.
I know that defining "modicum" is not
obvious in this setting; but I think
I could make a reasonable case for
a particular definition. At any rate,
this (to me) shortcoming of InDesign
means more uninformative, fussy
work, far different in kind from the
pleasing (but demanding) effort of
trying to get things to look right on
the page.
Again, my thanks.
Roger Purves

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