Open Final Cut Express 4 project in Final Cut Studio 2?

We just upgraded our field laptop to FCE 4 and our workstations to Final Cut Studio 2. Now our machines are telling us we can't open documents from the laptop on our Studio machines. Isn't Studio 2 newer than FCE 4? Do we have any options here, other than to roll back the version of FCE on our laptop?
Thanks,
Clint F
Bismarck, ND

Thanks for the pointer, tallguy. I just got done with all the Pro App updates and the project opens fine in FCP. If I'd installed the updates before trying to load that project file, I'd have never noticed a thing!
Clint

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