How can I tell if I have an educational version?

I bought Lightroom V1 a couple of years ago, it may or may not have been an educational version at the time. I still have the disks & serial number, but don't have the original box any more.
Anyway, I have since upgraded my camera to a Canon EOS 50D whose raw files aren't supported under v1.4, so I would like to upgrade my version of Lightroom. However, the way I read the small print is that I shouldn't be able to upgrade an educational version. I don't want to spend the money buying an upgrade version if it won't upgrade, and I would prefer to wait until V3 comes out if I need to buy a full version.
Is there any way I can tell if I the version I have is an education version.

Another option would be to download the stand-alone DNG converter. It should be able to recognize your RAW files and convert them to DNG, which you could then (I believe) import into v1.4.  I say "believe" because I think there was a DNG version upgrade recently, but I think it was backwards compatible so LR v1.4 would recognize the newer DNG.
Give it a try. 
Just offering that as an alternative to upgrading.
BTW, I think you're right about upgrading an educational version. But my experience has been that the educational price for a new version is about the same price as the retail price for the "upgrade" version.

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