Windows CS3 to mac

Hi, I am in the incredibly frustrating process of changing from windows to mac. Currently running CS3 on my PC and need to transfer those files to the mac. To do so I'm told I need to update to CS4, that there is no option to just be sent a CS3 mac serial number and re-install on the mac. However, by upgrading to CS4/mac I then can't open my old CS3/windows files (although the first support person told me I could do just that).
So what I need to know is, if I upgrade to CS4/windows before migrating, and thereby updating all my CS4 files, can I then be sent a new CS4/mac serial number to install on the mac and transfer those files, and will they open??
or to cut it short, can I send CS4/windows files to a mac loaded with CS4, and will they open? Please help, this is my lively hood at risk if I can't open any of those old files.

Platform is totally irrelavent (with the possible exception of fonts) when it comes to opeing INDD files. The only relevant thing is the version.
CS4 will open CS3 files. I don't know where you got the idea that it can't.
Adobe does not sell dual platform licenses and only offers a cross platform replacement for current versions. That's the reason you have to upgrade if you want to move to the Mac
Bob

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