Saving Backwards from Indesign CS2 to CS?

Initially, I recieved an Indesign file from CS4 that I couldn't open with my Indesign CS. With much frustration, researching and contacting SEVERAL people with different versions, I am left with the same file (now in .inx) that someone can open in CS2, but still not CS! Does anyone have Indesign CS2 that can help me and downgrade this file, so I can finally view it!!! Thank you and I greatly appreciate feedback!!!
Amy

Normally, I'd be the first to volunteer, but I don't actually have CS2 installed on the machine at the moment. I'm sure someone else will be along shortly, though.
In the meantime, you need to understand that what you see is likely to only be a vague imitation of what was created in CS4. Many of the features of CS4 will not be supported, so things like line styles or GREP styles will be lost completely, and you can count on some text wrapping differently from line to line becasue the text engines have also been upgraded significantly. If you can live with that, great, but sending it back to be opened again in CS4 is going to do the same re-wrap stuff if the file is edited. This is not a great way to collaborate.
Also, now is the time to seriously consider upgrading. You are still eligible for upgrade pricing to CS4, but you won't be for CS5, and it will cost a lot more money to upgrade then.

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