Opening older Logic Sessions in Logic 8

With the constant stream of upgrades we seem to all have to pay for these days, I'm probably not the only one who has old logic sessions dating back to version 4, if not earlier!! So tell me this.... why the bloody **** do Apple want to make life so difficult!! I have to revisit an old mix down and I can't open it in Logic 8. Not only that but it tells to open it in Logic 7 (which I still have the install disks). v.7 is no longer on my MAC as I had to do a clean install thanks to some amazing firewire problems! But now I can't install v.7 on my MAC without installing over v.8!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone know how i can solve this inconvenience??
R

I've had the same problem.
It drives me batty why Logic 7 would have the ability to load older projects, but Logic 8 doesn't.
What possible reason would there be for removing this basic functionality from the program?
All previous versions of Logic have used a "converting song into ver. xx format" warning for situations like this. But I can't remember any previous version of Logic that was simply unable to load older projects. Shameful. And most un "pro".

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