Please can somebody help me. Someone I know tried to install office XP on my computer because said version I was using was rubbish (microsoft office 2003- I was quite happy). I then tried to open outlook but of course there were two versions fighting against each other and it said to uninstall one of them, so I did and lost outllok completely with all my e-mails. Have now removed office XP but cannot re-install office 2003 because it says the windows installer patch is not valid and to verify that it is valid?????????

Perhaps this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...p/patching.asp

Or:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;290301

You may also want to do a search for "*.pst" files [without the quotes], and back them up somewhere.

The pst files are your Outlook files (emails, calendar, etc).