Lightroom 3 and CS4/CS5

I recently upgraded both LR and Photoshop.  I upgraded Photoshop from CS4 to CS5, but I kept CS4 on my machine.  I also upgraded LR to LR3 (but did not keep the old LR version).  LR3 still uses Photoshop CS4 as the primary Photoshop editor.  I'd like to use CS5 as the primary editor.  Is there any way around this?  Thx.

Also, you might want to install the LR 3.3 release candidate. The release notes claim there's a fix related to this issue:
Lightroom 3 could fail to launch Photoshop CS5 if Photoshop CS4 was uninstalled after the Photoshop CS5 installation
Although LR 3.3 RC is technically a beta, not major bugs have been reported in the two days since it has been released.

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    GregMcCHA72JY wrote:
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    Where a particular image has been worked on inside LR4 using the older process version (2010) - which is fully LR3-compatible (as your current ACR is also) - there will in that special case, be the same compatibility of metadata and adjustments as you currently experience. In effect, for that particular image, LR4 emulates LR3.
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