Mike,

Perhaps the following KB article might help:

ACC2000: Cannot Open an Access 97 Database in Access 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;310804




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Cheryl Fischer, MVP Microsoft Access
Law/Sys Associates, Houston, TX


"Mike Burns" wrote in message
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Cannot open a database with a previous version of your
application.....This is the error message we get once we
upgraded our office package. We were currently on
Office97 Pro and upgraded to Office XP Pro and we get the
above message once we try and open up access.