Error: Invalid project for What's This Help composer

I am running RoboHelp 7, Word 2003, and Visual Basic 6. I had Word problems when I upgraded (?) to RoboHelp 7 but they have been resolved. However, I have a major problem. When I open the What's This Help composer, I get an invalid .hpj error message and my Context.chj file does not open. When I try to create a new What's this Help composer project and have it update from my VB6 project, all my VB6 forms show up in the Dialog Boxes pane of composer but when I click on one, the controls on the form don't show up in the control pane of composer. I've spent a couple years building up my What's This Help and it appears that I have lost everything. Fortuantely I backed my whole help project to a DVD before I installed RH7. I've tried to go back to RH6 but it won't install, even after making sure I've completely unregistered and uninstalled RH7. This makes my backup useless unless I can get RH6 to install. Any suggestions?

Hi there
I believe what is happening to you is that a "What's this" project is generally tied to CHM output. I'd be willing to bet a dollar against a dougnut that your primary layout type is WebHelp, FlashHelp or something other than Microsoft HTML Help.
Try right-clicking the Microsoft HTML Help layout in the Single Source Layouts pod and nominating this layout as the primary.
THEN click File > New and you will hopefully be pleasantly surprised.
Cheers... Rick
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Firstly, some background information.
My project contains a large number of individual header (.H) files, one for each dialog within the software. These header files, which have been generated and provided by our developers, contain one entry for each field on the dialog to which the header file relates. The header files are all contained within a \HTML Topics\Fields\ folder (going from the root of my Help project).
Each header file has a corresponding text (.TXT) file. These text files contain entries that correspond to the entries in the relevant header file. The text files are also contained within the \HTML Topics\Fields\ folder.
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The What's This Help that is covered by the header files that I have imported since the upgrade to RoboHelp Version 8 does not work correctly; in each case, the What's This Help does not work for whichever field appears at the top of the appropriate text file. The position of the entry in the corresponding header file does not make a difference.
If I manually edit a text file to move a different entry to the top then recompile the Help project, the What's This Help does not work for the field that now appears at the top of the text file - and the What's This Help for the field that used to appear at the top of the text file now works.
I've tried everything I can think of to fix this, but nothing has worked. It seems as if there is a problem in the way RoboHelp is compiling the header and text files.
If I use Microsoft HTML Help Workshop to decompile the CHM file, then view the contents of the resulting, decompiled text files, the affected files appear as follows:
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to the second level, and so on.
.topic 16813
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Note how the entry at the top - which relates to the What's This Help that doesn't work - appears differently to the other entries which do work. The name of the ID appears after ".topic" rather than the appropriate ID number.
Any help that anyone can provide me with would be very much appreciated.
Thank you,
Mark

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sensitive (F1) works fine, but What's this help doesn't work. In my
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