Unable to open image in camera raw in CS3

I have CS3 and I'm unable to open images in camera raw. I updated to 4.6 but it hasn't helped, and I've tried suggestions such as "open as" and then "formats" and choosing "camera raw"...still doesn't work. Adobe is not able to help me over the phone due to the older version of Photoshop...any thoughts or help? Thanks so much.

A critical piece of information would be what camera model the RAW images you're trying to open are from.
Each model camera must be supported specifically in Camera RAW. If your camera is newer than the latest ACR version available for your Photoshop version then you'll be unable to open the RAW files in ACR.
Three solutions are:
Use the latest version of the free DNG Converter from Adobe Updates < http://www.adobe.com/downloads/updates > to convert each RAW file to a DNG and then that DNG will be openable in the older ACR version. You may need to change the ACR-version compatibility setting in the DNG Converter. This solution is free but doubles your storage space if you keep your original RAW plus the DNGs.
Buy Lightroom (which is less than half the price of Photoshop) and continue to use your older Photoshop with it. The adjustments you do in LR are the same as you'd be able to do in ACR (actually more because the newest version of LR and ACR have more adjustments)
Upgrade to or buy the latest version of Photoshop, depending on your upgrade availability.
I personally have both Lightroom and Photoshop and use LR 90% of the time.

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