outlook was locking up with attachments

Hello, i may be in over my head here. Outlook was frezzing up if i tryed to
open any word type attachments. I later found that word 2003 itself had issues. removing the normal.Dot file seems to fix that. Here is the sad part...
In the process of trying things, i have down loaded but not run yet office 2003 incase i chose to re install outlook 2003 SP3. I went to open my old outlook to test the word fix and it now wants to start from scatch.

I halted that. ARE ALL MY EMAILS AND CALENDAR GONE ????? or should i go ahaead and re install and maybe they will turn up. I have not emtied my recycle folder.

 

its fixed

Thanks for offering to help. I have all ready fixed the issues. I had to go into safe mode to fix it. sorry but i cant remember all the steps, but i found another site that steped us through it all. Merry Christams and happy new year