InCopy CS5 with InDesign CS4

Folks,
A customer of ours have a fwe licences of InDesign CS4, and are looking to put InCopy on a few more desks. They're a charity, so it'll be EDU licences, and they really don't want to have to upgrade their existing CS4 to CS5.
Is there likely to be any issue in them mixing-and-matching like this? Clearly, InCopy CS5 is going to work quite happily with InDesign CS4 files, but what about if those files then get passed back?
I'm presuming that I'm going to find it very hard work to find any InCopy CS4 licences still in the distie channel - it's been enough of a ball-ache just getting pricing...
Thanks in advance,
Adrian.

Don't even think about doing it. At the very least text will reflow differently from InCopy to InDesign and from InDesign to InCopy.
Amazon has CS4 upgrades http://amzn.to/9CpaX9
for $99 and full versions http://amzn.to/9L8mgt
for about $280.
Don't know how long they'll last.
Bob

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