Illustrator CS4 on Windows Vista 64--opening multi-page PDF

I see that Illustrator CS4 will save multi-page PDFs, so I'm wondering what I'm missing that I cannot open all the pages of a multi-page PDF at once? I'm receiving illustrations from an artist who uses a much older version of Illustrator and he sends them as a multipage PDF. It would be a huge time saver to be able to open all the pages at once to grab out the art I need, but I can't seem to figure out how to do that.
I apologize if this has been asked before. This new forum format doesn't seem to yield itself to easily seeing frequently asked questions.

But if it exports multi-page PDF, why can't it open it? I wouldn't think that would be a compatibility issue. PDF is not necessarily an AI format after all.
In my mind, I guess that defeats the purpose of a multi-page (artboard) file, if you can't open a multi-page file--even if the opening requires some kind of conversion. I'd take a multi-page import or a multi-page convert.
In a google search, I noticed that someone has written an applescript for Mac versions that will import multi-page PDFs to a multiple artboard AI file. Any chance there is a script available that will work on Windows? I upgraded my personal (Windows) copy of the suite, but chances are we'll be waiting on CS5 at work (where I have my Mac).

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Muchas Gracias por tu colaboración y excelente script, el que se abra el ESTK no tiene mayor importancia.
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