No Timeline when opening in CS3

I just upgraded my Premiere Pro 1.5 to CS3. I had a project I was working on in Pro 1.5 that I wanted to continue working on in CS3, but when I open my project in CS3 there is no timeline sequence. Everything else such as my resource bins and the contents of them are there, but where did my timeline go???
Even stranger is that if I make a new sequence (File --> New --> Sequence), it is named "Sequence 02" --- Which seems to make me believe the sequence 01 is actually still there but I just can't access it!
Anyone else have this problem?

Aanarav, thank you so much for your wisdom! :) I just purchased Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 with Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 a little under a month ago and then decided to upgrade to Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 with Adobe Encore CS3 last night. I was shocked when I opened up the .PREL file this morning to find that my timeline wouldn't open up, nor could I add anything to my timeline. Thankfully, Jeff had a similar issue to mine and between the two of you, you just saved me over 10 hours of work to re-do what I had been working on over the last two weeks.
Thank you!
Matt

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