Using FSharpx (from NuGet) with F# 2.0 in VS2010 - visual-studio-2010

So I'm developing a small F# console app in VS2010, targeting .Net 3.5. Seeing as there are some nice helpers I tried to add a reference to Fsharpx.Core through NuGet.
It compiled with a warning:
Found conflicts between different versions of the same dependent assembly.
...and when executing I got the following:
Could not load file or assembly 'FSharp.Core, Version=2.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.
Now, I don't think I have F# 3.0 installed. Does FSharpx require F# 3.0? If so, does that mean I can't use FSharpx in VS2010? (Since F# 3.0 can't be used in VS2010.)
In that case, is there a version of FSharpx for F# 2.0? Or am I missing something?
Edit: More info on F# library versions:
Correct version of Fsharp.Core and F# compiler and runtime version number confusion.

In the end I ended up doing a F# 2.0-targeting build of Fsharpx.Core myself.
This is what i did:
Fetch latest source from GitHub.
Open FSharpx.Core.fsproj, creating a new solution for only this one.
Change references to use old version (2.0.0.0) of FSharp.Core
Build!
And this worked, solving my problems above.
Could this be working because the FSharpx source helpfully includes a F# 3.0-compiler?
Kind of like how you can use some new features in C# (like optional arguments) but still target .NET 3.5, by using a newer (from .NET 4) compiler?

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