Installing FCS2 without upgrading FCP 5.1

I just got Final Cut Studio 2 and want to install it without upgrading Final Cut Pro. I'm still on FCP 5.1 at work and want to stay easily compatible on my laptop, is this possible?

Ah. Got it.
FCS has to be on a drive that has Mac OS X on it.
An external bootable drive with Mac OS X and FCS 2 is one way to do this.
You could partition the internal which would be a terrible hassle, everything would have to be installed twice.
Another way would be to export XML 3 versions of your projects from FCP 6. But there are some effects and functions in FCP 6 that are not present in FCP 5.1 so you would have to avoid using those.

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