Older Psd's wont open in FW CS4

Question

I recently upgraded to the Web Premium version of CS4. In
2004, I used pre-CS PS with ImageReady to create my website which
consists of 16 pages. I want to upgrade the site and make some
changes so I figured upgrading to new and possibly better (easier
to use) CS4 would be the ticket. Well I anxiously watched a few
online video tutorials assuming I would have a seamless effort with
the pages, links, nav button rollover states and everything set
previously. All I wanted to do was change out the bitmap text for
some vector text, resample and correct the clarity of some photos
and add a few graphics, maybe a few more photos, and change some
external links. Well, I've never used FW or DW and like I said I
thought it would be a snap. My problem is I cannot import my PSD
files into FW as I get the error message, "Could not open the file.
An internal error occurred." I've opened simple graphic PSD files
that were created for items on the pages, but it will not open the
full PSD page file. My Standard page width is 980 pixels and most
pages are not longer than 1000 pixels. One page is a hair over
2000. File sizes range from 7 Megs to 16 Megs. Is it the ImageReady
layers for the slices and button rollover scripts that are choking
it? I tried to open an HTML of the pages in FW and I got an error
message that said FW "This document contains Javascripts that could
not handled by Fireworks. Fireworks will not be able to Save or
Export these Javascripts." I even tried saving a file with slices
removed and it wouldn't open.
I feel like I'm starting over here. The last thing I want to
do is break apart the page pieces and reassmble them in FW or DW.
Is that my only option, am I missing something, or is there a fix
in the works? I've read a lot of unhappy camper comments posted on
Firewroks CS4. Right now I'm thinking of just doing the edits on
one of my other machines that still has ImageReady and GoLive. Give
me some good news. Thanks in advance...
Dan

Answer 1

Interesting.
I have successfully Opened several Pr 6.5 Projects into CS2 Production Studio (PrPro 2.0), and each had Titles, that were just fine. The only thing that I had to do with a very few was change the font, as those older Projects were done on a Mac, and I did not have all the same fonts on my newer PC. PrPro even did a fair job of substituting some of the fonts, but others had to be done manually. Note the versions that I have used, as there could well be major changes along the way. Also, are you on a PC now too, or does a Mac figure into your workflow?
Now, going back to before PrPro, at about Pr 5 (?) a totally different Title format was used - Title Deko, and those files were separate from the Project files.
PRTL files (Title Template files) can only be used in either PrPro, or PrE, and cannot be Opened in PS, AI, or any other program, that I know of. Being able to Open and edit them in PS has been a constant Feature Request for PS, but so far, no-go.
When you Dbl-click on the Titles, do they Open in Titler?
Good luck,
Hunt