I was going to ask this same question.
Vision 2003, when asked to save as 2002 seems not to do a good job, as the
resulting file opens in neither 2002 nor 2000.
I tried many other exports. Autocad was amazing. Took ages to convert,
then pretended there was a read only file of the same name in the
directory I wished to save (untrue) so it chose not to save the result.
Have MS totally messed this up ? Is there really no way I can save the
flowchart as a file that is openable and editable by someone with 2000 (or
even 2002) ? Are they just trying to force the world to upgrade whether
they want to or not ?