Helpfile conversion advice needed

I had a "vbhelpwriter" compiled help project. It made an HPJ
file. I used RoboHelp for Word (2000) to open the project, and
after 5 minutes of magic, it managed to create a word doc from the
help and list "topics" more or less in the explorer. I have bit of
a mess now and I'm wondering if someone can help me fix it.
The first thing I did was rebuild the TOC by eyeballing the
original one while running and hunting and pecking the topics from
the imported document. This was tedious as when I clicked on the
topics in the left-pane, the word context would not show in the
word pane. I don't care that much, except that I don't want this
thing to bubble into corruption.
I also have topics that look like they were really glossary
items. They're named like
quote:
[Untitled] GLOS_XXXQ] , where [Untitled] is always there and
GLOS_ is always there.
I compiled it okay, it runs, it links to the right topics,
shows popup help, the TOC works, the index works. But I question
these things:
1) Is this going to come back and bite me?
2) Was there a better way to do this? I would have liked to
have A) preserved the topic id numbers and B) not had to rebuild
the TOC
Any help is appreciated, and I really don't know anything
about helpfiles and compiling them except how to use Robohelp to
make one.

Have a look at Flip4Mac: http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm
mish

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