Purchasing Indesign CS3 licenses

I have clients who have 2 copies of Indesign CS3 and a considerable amount of work has already been done on the existing version and they don’t want to either have to do it over or to mix two different versions.  Is it possible to purchase licenses for CS3 even though CS4 is out?  Is it possible to purchase CS4 licenses, but have the serial numbers downgraded to work with CS3?  They want to keep their installations legal but really desire to use CS3.

Bob is right, Adobe will not give out licenses to CS3 at this time. The supported licenses are CS4 only for now.
I checked this out late last year and I was informed I'd have to buy the full CS4 Mac version, as there was no way to convert a CS3 Windows version over to CS3 Mac, as it was too late after the release of CS4.
But Peter has a point, what is up with the requirement of having to do these files over and why would you need to mix two different versions? Just upgrade to CS4 for the two existing computers and buy new copies of CS4 for any new or added computers they need to install InDesign on and use CS4 exclusively on their files from there on out.

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