Indesign CS5 and CS5.5 compatibility?

Hi All
Can you help... Do you know if Indesign and Illustrator CS5.5 files are compatible with CS5?
We've got Creative Suite Design Premium CS4 on one machine and CS5 on the other machine - it's a nightmare because things designed on the CS5 machines can't be opened on the other machine without major headaches. So I need to upgrade CS4 machine to CS5, except that Adobe have gone and brought out CS5.5... and so it's now proving hard to get a CS4 to CS5 upgrade.
Therefore what will happen if I have CS5.5 on one machine and CS5 on the other? Are we still going to have compatibility issues?
Thanks for any help.

Thanks for the info - that's what I suspected. We really need to be able to read the native Indesign files on both machines.
... "Best to upgrade both machines"... errr ha ha ha (nervous laugh). What at £600 each upgrade? After the British tax man has had his 10lbs of flesh there's just about enough left for food these days. Enough for one upgrade if we smash the piggy bank and certainly then nothing left for fun times!
Don't get me wrong, I really love the Adobe software, I think it's excellent, but the way Adobe charge for upgrades is actual full-on arm-twisting nasty 'tough luck mate' extortion. With 5.5 it's like having to buy a whole new car just so you can get new wiper blades that fit. I wouldn't mind, except that I don't need the new wiper blades, but they've stopped selling the previous versions. Even Micro$oft will still sell you Office 2007 if you want it. Bizarre way to build customer loyalty. Oh yes I forgot, they're the design software monopoly, so who cares! Let's ramp up the price again! Woopeee!
Anyway, thanks for the help. I'll have a look around the auction sites and online retailers to see if I can find stock of CS4 - CS5 upgrade.

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