Should I be able to use InDesign CS3 on both partitions of my Mac -- Yosemite & Snow Leopard?

I've just had to upgrade my OS to 10.10.2 Yosemite from 10.6.8 Snow Leopard. I ended up having to partition my computer so I could still run 10.6.8 because some of my files were not making the transition well, and I only planned on keeping the extra partition on it until I had certain files converted, but now I find that InDesign on Yosemite won't open my old Pagemaker files that I'm still having to try to use and convert to InDesign. So I figured that I could just boot up in 10.6.8 and convert whatever files I needed, then go back to Yosemite. Unfortunately, for some reason InDesign won't open in 10.6.8 now, telling me that I either need to reinstall or call the Adobe support tech. Does anybody out there know whether it will work OK if I just simply reinstall InDesign on the old partition, and also, will it still work OK on both partitions? I’m going to have to be able to use InDesign on both for at least a few months while I go through all my old files on 10.6.8 and try to salvage however much I can, while at the same time doing any current work on Yosemite. Any help that anyone can give me will be very gratefully appreciated!

Hi P Spier, thanks for your response. Here's the error message I get when I try to open it in 10.6.8. And no I haven't tried trashing the prefs, but I guess I'll need to do that. Oops, it won't let me add a screen shot, so here's what it says: "Licensing for this product has stopped working. You cannot use this product at this time. You must repair the problem by uninstalling and then reinstalling this product or contacting your IT administrator or Adobe customer support for help." So if I just uninstall and reinstall the CS3 on 10.6.8 like it says, do you know if that will make it stop working on Yosemite? Or, as an alternative, if I were to upgrade to CS5 for Yosemite, will I be able to reinstall the old CS3 on 10.6.8 and have it still work? I really need to use it on both platforms. Any help you can give will be greatly appreciated!

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