Why do my InDesign documents report my ported plugin as missing?

I recently ported a plugin from CS4 to CS5, but when I open my old InDesign documents associated with the CS4 plugin, CS5 reports my plugin as missing (I can open the plugin and use it just fine, so it's obviously not missing).
I have one CriticalTag defined for my plugin, but I haven't changed my persistent data between the two versions in any way that I'm aware.
Shouldn't Indesign associate my ported plugin with these old documents? And if not, what am I missing?

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