Opening Illustrator 7 files in CS3

I am a college student and am currently studying Illustrator in a class. The school uses the CS3 version. The instructor recommended that we download the free trial version of CS3, as the thirty days would be sufficient for the amount of time we'd spend on the Illustrator overview. The download isn't available anymore (at least, not the Windows version I'd need; Softpedia appears to have the Mac version), however, and so this isn't an option for me. We do have Illustrator 7 here at home, so I was wondering whether or not I would be able to open an Illustrator 7 file in CS3. I know there are difficulties involved in opening newer files in older software, but how hard is it to open an older file in newer software?
If this isn't possible, is there any way I can still access the free trial download for Windows Illustrator CS3 (since CS4's trials aren't out yet)?

>...how hard is it to open an older file in newer software?
Shouldn't be a problem.

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