Opening Photoshop 7 files in CS2

I work for a very tight company! That being said I am still working with Photoshop 7. I have CS2 at home and have been having trouble getting certain 7 files to open in my CS2. Any suggestions/help?

What trouble?
Newer versions of Photoshop support older files as far back as possible (Photoshop 1.0).

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It's a metadata parsing bug in Photoshop 7 and CS/8 (version 3-6 no problem, version 9-12 no problem). It is caused by the history metadata in the file, possibly because of the length of the history, possibly because of the InDesign history bits. I don't have a MacOS 10.1 system avaialble to debug Photoshop 7 any more, so I can't be positive about the exact cause. But we know that Photoshop CS2 and later work just fine.
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