Large cs3 document won't open in cs6

Good morning,
I have a 1.3gb catalogue that was created in InDesign cs3. I have now got cs6 and have tried to open the file but it keeps freezing on "converting data".
On the odd occasion it crashes the pc almost instantly, on others it just seems to freeze or be making small progress for hours before eventually crashing the pc.
The current scenario has the document being opened for 8hrs and it is about 30% along the progress bar.
Is there anyway that I can improve the performance of this conversion?
I am working on a windows pc with vista 64bit (which works with other documents fine), running with 6gb ram.
Look forward to any advice.

I can't find anyone with cs3 to open the file, we have a cs4 within the business but again with no joy in opening the file.
A friend of mine has an old cs3 from their student days but I assume it won't let me activate the licence as it as a student / teacher licence and it probably was not deactivated from their old system, and I guess also it's just not the right thing to do...
I have the file in PDF which could be a solution, albeit meaning I lose the edit ability of the old pages, but at least I can use these along side some new pages.
otherwise there's going to be alot of work to replicate this old file in a newer version of ID.
thanks for all your comments, I will let you know how I fair

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