Opening older documents text layers are confused

When opening older documents, why does PS CS6 mess up my text layers when I select them?
I open the .psd from CS5 in a file with many text layers, the text is correct when opeinging the file but when i click on it to edit it, data from another layer replaces the selected text!
This is very frustrating, hours of work will be waisted getting things back normal!

We still need to verify whether Photoshop is correctly updated to 13.0.1, go to help>System info and paste the content here.
What I do not get is when you state that CS5 does it, I do not recall it ever hitting that version.
Could you post about your issue, if it still happens under 13.0.1 in this discussion: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1018589

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