GoLive CS to CS5?

One Adobe page says:
"The GoLive Migration Kit extension helps you convert your GoLive CS2 and GoLive 9 sites to Dreamweaver CS5 sites."
But when you go to the GoLive Migration Kit page, it says "Note: The GoLive Migration Kit extension is only compatible with Dreamweaver CS4."  I think it may just be that the page needs updating...?
I have old GoLive sites, and I now have DW CS5.  Can I use this kit?
Thanks for any input.
Dean

No solution I've found, certainly not from Adobe. I'm keeping my Golive sites in place, since most everything works fine. Notice that Flash objects in a page now crash the program, but that's only in preview mode.
I am doing new sites and checking some page code of my old sites in DW (particularly the Flash).
I can update my old sites in GL in a fraction of the time it takes to do  the same in DW, so there's no good reason to move them. I only wish DW had such good site management and user interface. Most of my web design friends with older sites are also doing the same
I did pull this from another thread, it's probably the best way to handle a migration since Adobe has apparently dropped transition support for CS5:
1. Start with an original copy of the GoLive site
2. Create a new site in Dreamweaver (Go to Manage Sites and click New, then choose Site from the dropdown menu)
3. In the Advanced tab, give the site a name, then under Local Root Folder click on the folder and navigate to the GoLive site.
4. Choose the folder titled Web-Content, and click the Choose Button.
5. Next do the same thing under Default Images Folder, and choose the "images" folder within your site.
6. I leave Links Relative to Document checked, and for the time being I leave HTTP address alone.
7. I check Use Case-Sensitive Link Checking and also check Cache.
8. Click OK
9. From here I quit DW to prevent conflicts, and open the GoLive site file. If I choose to not manage my site in GoLive or intend to turn the site over to someone else to manage in DW, I create a new temporary HTML page for each component's contents. You might create a special folder for these and mark it so that you will know it's only temporary. Once you've copied all your Components into individual HTML files, you will need to delete all the Components in your site and rebuild these under Dreamweaver's Library Items... unless you are savvy with and choose to use .php or .ssi's
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