InDesign opens CS2 docs in CS3

Does anyone know of a way to get InDesign (or any other CS3 app) to stop defaulting to opening ALL documents in the most current version (CS3) when they were created in a previous version. I need to keep my legacy documents in the version they were created in and my tendency to double-click keeps causing files to open in the most current version.
ideas?

This was sort of covered recently.
Launch InD CS2 first. Launch InD CS3 second.
Double-clicking (or command-downArrowing) an InD doc will open CS2 files in CS2; will attempt to CS3 files in CS2, give cautions, and fail.
Same for Illy.
The discipline becomes dragging CS3 files to the CS3 icon in the dock. Removing .indd in "Get Info" will change a file's icon to the correct version.
Least it works here.
HTH. YMMV.
Sincerely,
rdd

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