InDesign CS English to CS3 French update

Question

We're being obliged to migrate from InDesign CS (English version) to InDesign CS3 (French version, together with Windows XP OS in French). Please don't ask why!!
Several years ago when we migrated from Pagemaker 7 to InDesign CS (both English versions), we experienced considerable problems with our InDesign documents that predominantly use the Times New Roman PS MT font. The major problem occurred when the same document was opened on different computers. We would sometimes get pop-up font incompatability messages, indicating that only the Times New Roman font was available. This was eventually corrected by our IT department, but it took a while.
Is anyone able to offer some information/advice/experience/pitfalls on this proposed update, whether it's a straight English to English update or an English to French update (certainly more helpful...)?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Thanks for your input, Peter. From recollection, I believe that's how our IT dept. solved our earlier problem, by uninstalling the TT version and installing the Postscript version.
However, with a French OS, if all French fonts are installed we're going to get a "gras" version, rather than "bold" and "italique", rather than "italic, etc., etc., where we currently have paragraph styles set as "bold", or "italic", etc., in both English and French versions of documentation.
Theoretically, you're right about this happening once for each file on first opening, but we do have hundreds of files, so even this is going to be tedious, and with multiple computers, I am not confident that this is going to pass with few problems...