PC Pagemaker Files

A customer came into our print shop today with a CD with 3 .PM6 files on it. InDesign CS3 won't open them. I tried them on our old Mac running OS 9 and Pagemaker 6 and it won't recognize the files either.
I tried a few tricks such as setting the missing type/creator codes from pre-OSX days and not sure what I did but now they show up as being openable in InDesign but now they just crash InDesign...
I have CS5 at home, going to try that too but I'm at a loss what to do next.

I have Pagemaker files I open here all the time with indesign cs4 this is on a mac.
If you will try opening them here if you like. I can then save them as cs4 for you.
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Update:
Just tried opening a pm6 file with indesign would not work
Renamed file from .pm6 to p65 and indesign would open it (yes i lied to the program)

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