Mac AE plugin: 32/64-bit fat binary not possible

The After Effects CS5 SDK Guide makes the following claim:
"On Mac OS, the 32-bit and 64-bit plug-ins can be combined into a fat binary, using the Mac OS tool ‘lipo’."
In practice it doesn't seem to be possible to create a single Mac plugin bundle that would be compatible with both 32-bit CS4 and 64-bit CS5.
Combining the binaries using lipo does work, but the problem is that there's a single resource file, and CS4 and CS5 require different values for "AE_Effect_Spec_Version" in the PiPL.
Changing the required spec version value for CS4 compatibility causes a crash in CS5, and vice versa.

Hi Pauli,
After Effects supports multiple PiPLs in a single binary.  As you discovered, the CS5 and pre-CS5 versions will require separate PiPLs with different version numbers.  Some developers have been able to create a single binary by building the 64-bit version using the CS5 SDK headers, and the 32-bit version using an earlier SDK, and then lipo the two together to create a single binary.  Note that multiple PiPLs are not officially supported in Premiere Pro, so Premiere Pro will need separate binaries.
Hope this helps,
Zac

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