RAAckerman shared these words of wisdom:

> I screwed up, sorry. The Beta was uninstalled prior to installing
> Office2007 and prior to installing OneNote2007. the system said it
> had to change the structure of the files and I never used it until
> this week, when I found I was locked out of my notebook.

Thanks for the clarification!

Do you still have copies (backups) of the stuff in the old shape so
that you could open the notebooks again?

Rainald