Opening PSD documents - "not a valid document" - help?

I'm trying to open an older PSD document from my windows XP photoshop CS 3 that I was using on my old laptop - but I get this message (see screenshot). How can I open these kind of documents?
Thanks in advance!
I'm using a mac version of Photoshop CS 4 on my macbook pro.

This might work...
Try opening the psd file using Apple's Preview application. You'll lose your layers but may be able to retrieve the image when PS won't. Once open in Preview, hit 'Save As' and save it to a suitable folder, etc. We've seen this work in the past when PS just wasn't able to do it.

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