Help Request - Word Docs locked

[scott14]

Suddenly some of my most important .docs & .docx are locked.

"Word cannot open the document: user does not have access privleges"

I am the Administrator, with full rights.

It's my personal computer at home.

I created the files from within my own user profile.

I never applied any passwords to lock the files.

It's not ALL the files, but just happen to be a few very important ones that I need right now, including my rather long list of passwords.

The files also won't open with OpenOffice Writer or Windows Notepad

So far I've tried these steps w/o success:

1) re-verified that MS Office Pro 2007 IS properly installed and IS properly activated (this is NOT 30 day trial sw, it's the real deal)

2) reboot

3) searched out and deleted all *.tmp, ~*.do?, and ~*.wbk files (as recommended by several places I found on the web)

4) chkdsk w/ repair options

5) done a repair install of MS Office Professional 2007

6) re-set Properties / Security making sure I do have full rights. I've done this at all levels of the tree of directories, and for the individual files.

7) re-asserted ownership of the files via Properties/Security/Advanced/Owner, at all levels of the directory tree.

8) Ran MS Office Diagnostics tool, no problems found, no updates needed, no disk problems, no ram problems, no setup problems.

Any guidance on how to get my files to open again will be appreciated. Thank you.

Edited February 20, 2007 by scott14

[scott14]

Bump in hopes of a reply