Converting Word 5.1 files with Applescript

As Microsoft office 2011 currently no longer support Word 5.1 I'm using the previous Office 2004. I can read 5.1 files and saved themmanually as .doc files on Snow Leopard.
However the files are many and I have this script
set inputfolder to (choose folder) as text
set destFolder to (choose folder) as text
set theFiles to list folder inputfolder without invisibles
activate application "Word"
repeat with x from 1 to count of theFiles
          set thefile to item x of theFiles
          set inputfile to (inputfolder & thefile)
          tell application "Word"
open document inputfile
                    save document 1 in (destFolder & thefile & ".doc")
close document 1 saving no
          end tell
end repeat
Trying to open the files I need to convert and save them in a different folder.
However I always get an error from AppleScript Version 2.3 (118)
error "Microsoft Word got an error: document \"Disk:Word_Files:a: New Files:General Stuff:conv\" doesn’t understand the open message." number -1708 from document "Disk:Word_Files:a:   New Files:General Stuff:conv"
If anyone can help or give another solution to batch convert I will be very glad and happy new Year to all

Thanks all however if anyone is interested this is the solution it works till the current office version:
set inputfolder to (choose folder) as text
set destFolder to (choose folder) as text
set theFiles to list folder inputfolder without invisibles
activate application "Microsoft Word"
repeat with x from 1 to count of theFiles
          set thefile to item x of theFiles
          set inputfile to (inputfolder & thefile)
          tell application "Microsoft Word"
open file inputfile
save as document 1 file name (destFolder & thefile & ".doc")
close document 1 saving no
          end tell
end repeat
The only drawback is:
if the selected destination folder is inside the input folder the script will give error and stop
however this doesn't happen if the "destination folder" is somewhere elese from the selected input folder
Regards and Happy new year

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