intuit does not support any version older than 3 years, hence the necessity to step up.
Best thing you can do is call around to the accounting firms and QB people to see if someone has the intervening years you need installed and are willing to help you out.
An option is to have intuit data services do it for you. As I understand it, if you bought the new version from intuit they will do it for free, other wise it costs something (I'm not sure how much)
