back to my trust of Microsof i run XP (i know i would i hear teh world shout) and i had a odd error in goes the ms disk and it auto runs and i have a menu remove install or repair
suggest repair and choose the original install option.
i stick with this as i have happened to do this as i have many times,
if it fails no amount of play with office will solve it, my moneys on windows playing about.
i have you have not *cleaned up * as i have a task to ask you, please scan c: and sort by file type, now im goint to be digfficult here and not help you LOOK closly and batches of the same files ie names and poss extentions say .jack or .xls manybe different.. with consectave numbers on them say 1 2 3 4 and so on