Photoshop 5.5 Not Opening Newer .pdf files?

I am a volunter on our neighborhood's Board Association and I am in charge of putting together our quarterly newsletter. I have used photoshop 5.5 in the past to open .pdf files sent to me to save them to a .jpeg for insertion into the newsletter that is created in Pagemaker 6.5. (I know, I know, pretty atiquated, but it works!) However, I have received two more .pdf files that, for all I can figure out, were created with the newer Acrobat 9.3, and my Photoshop 5.5 will not open them. It gives me a "Generic PDF Parser Error: There was an error processing the document. The file may be damaged or corrupted." Is this indeed true of the .pdf files and the Acrobat 9.3 connection, and if so, what can I do besides the obvious -- upgrading?!

Hi,
This is the Photoshop.com forum, which is the online forum for the Photoshop.com web site.
You'll get the best response if you post over in the Photoshop forum: http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop
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