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apt-cdrom makes unstable entries

I ordered CD-ROMs of Debian 3.0 off CheapBytes so I could install Debian without needing broadband (which I don't have access to at home over the summer).
I want to make my computer use the CD-ROMs for stable (so if I run apt-get install packagename/stable, it is loaded off the CD-ROMs), and use internet sources for Testing and Unstable. I plan to pin whichever of Stable and Testing is more convenient for me at any given time (in other words, I plan to pin stable until I have DSL in my apartment in Davis and then to pin testing)
Unfortunately when the installer or apt-cdrom created entries in my /etc/apt/sources.list, the CDrom entries were listed not as "stable" but as "unstable" (they're both the same packages - stable and unstable are both symlinks to woody on the CDs), but I am afraid that this would get in my way of using `apt-get install package/preffered-distribution` to install new packages. 

[bloom@cat-in-the-hat ~]% cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-6 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-5 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-4 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20020718)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main 
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable contrib main non-free
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
How can I make the CD-ROM entries appear as stable? If I try editing sources.list to change the name, I end up breking my ability to get packages from the CD-ROMs, even if I run apt-get update.
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