Office xp standard setup problem with publisher

[Bryan]

I have installed Office xp standard on a machine which
previously had office 2k pro. Outlook, Word, and Excel
are all working fine. Publisher is not working right.
Every time I open it up, it opens up, then when I try to
click on anything, it locks up and gives me a windows
error. I tried to repair it using the install cd with no
luck. Does anyone have any ideas before I totally
uninstall office and start over from scratch?

Thanks!

 

[DL]

I dont believe retail version of OfficeXP contains publisher
http://www.microsoft.com/office/howtobuy/choosing.asp
Where as Office 2K premium did
David

 

[Bryan]

I apologize, it is office xp sbe. In the mean time, I
did an uninstall of office xp sbe and then reinstalled
it, and the same thing is happening. I don't think the
uninstall you run from the cd actually completely
uninstalls it because when I open up outlook after I
reinstalled it, all my email information was there and
unchanged. I would assume normally if you uninstall
software, you would have to start over from scratch,
which is what I want and what is not happening. Please
Help!!!

 

[DL]

If you uninstall it does'nt remove data files, the pst being such. When you
reinstall OL finds the origonal pst and uses it.
I assume you've uninstalled Office2K, that being the case its possible a
file or some such is conficting with the installed XP. There will be a MS kb
article on the manual removal of Office2K, fraid I dont have url. It would
seem to me that you might best proceed by ensuring O2K is completely
uninstalled , prior to the install of XP.
When you do install XP it might be preferable to install into a new Folder
eg OfficeXP rather than a default install.
Hope something here helps,
David