turns out only part of this problem is due to the 200 version of Word being "incompatible" with Win 7
Win 7 has an extremely poorly designed Permissions system, and moving your XP data files over can cause problems ind. of Office 2000
Windows 7 Take Ownership & Grant Permissions to Access Files & Folder
- towards the bottom of this long thread
Word 2000 also crashes whenever I try to close the program.