Problems Uninstalling MS Outlook and Office 2007 Beta - HELP!

Like an idiot I downloaded and installed these 2 Beta programs. From what I can see there are still several bugs to be worked out so I tried uninstalling both today using ad/remove programs.

After doing this, I no longer have my original MS office pro 2000; and all of my email is gone. The system restore doesn't help either.

I reinstalled both betas and got all of my files back so I tried to save them (backup) as pst files so I could transfer them to another computer running Office pro 2000. The problem is my original program des not recognize the new pst format nor can it open any new word or excel files created under the beta.

All I really want to do is to get back to where I was with my original office 2000 and get my email back.

I have been all over the web looking for a cure and Microsoft is no help since there is no support for the betas.

Can any one help me get back to where I was?

What a pain - Justjim

Dell Inspiron Laptop
512 ram
1.73 Mhz
XP Pro (and formerly Office 2000 pro - wish I had it back...)

 

In Outlook 2003, if you go to create a new PST file (via file->new->"outlook data file"0, you have an option of creating a legacy PST file which IS recognized by older Outlooks. I think the 2003 wording is "Outlook 97-2002 Data File". Once you create the file, you can Export all of you email into it by going to file->export and pointing the export towards the legacy file which you created.

No idea if this works the same in the Outlook 2007 beta or not, but hopefully this is at least a place for you to start!

Good luck!

 

Thanks Gecks,

They do have the feature for saving the files in an earlier format. I tried it but it still does not recognize the new pst (saved in the old version) on my other computer.
This might be a bug due to the beta.

Thanks for your help anyway. I'll keep searching for a way to fix this.

Justjim