Can no longer open Excel files.

Whenever I try to open an Excel file, I get the message "The file name or path name no longer exists or the file that you are trying to open is the same as another that is read only."
This is the same for all .xls files. I even get it if I try to create a new workbook. I have the files backed up on my iDisk, with iBackup, but restore fails. I can open them with Appleworks. I think that I may have lost a link between user/documents somehow. Can anyone please help?

Generally if this happens the thing I have found to do is to quit the application and then restart the application by clicking on one of the files (like the ones in your documnets folder), not by starting the application and using the open command. Doing this immediately will usually solve the problem.
This could also be an indication of some sort of file or disk corruption so I would recommend that you not only check the disk using Disk Utility from the CD but also checking your disk permissions just to be sure. Instructions for doing so can be found in steps one and two here: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
If the first two steps don't solve the problem then you might as well go to step three, otherwise stop with one and two.
If you have backups and cannot get the files to open then your only other choice will be to restore from the backup copies. Either way I would make sure that my disk was healthy, by following the above noted steps, before doing the restore, otherwise you may corrupt the restored copy.
Good Luck and let us know if this helps!!

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~/Library/Internet Plug-ins
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