Indesign 2.0 has stopped opening pagemaker 7 files

Suddenly last month Indesign 2.0 stopped opening pagemaker 7 files, after 2 years of converting PM files to indd files and then converting to pfd files without any problems. Now it will not even open the PM files it opened years ago. It will open the indd files it produced years ago. It now gives the message that it either doesn't recognize the type of file or is missing a plugin. I am using an XP, I have uninstalled and reinstalled PM and ID, I have upgraded to ID 2.0.2 and PM 7.01. I have gone back 2 weeks and 1 month ago and tried to restore the system. I have tried convrting to PM6.5 format (p65) rather than PM7 format (pmd)Please help me, I do all my Newsletters and Journals in Pagemaker and use ID to convert to PDF before taking to the commercial printers.
Thanks,
[email protected]

When I first started using Pagemaker, I tried exporting pmd files as pdf, but always got a message that there was no PS printer installed and the program would not create pdf files. (It always seemed strange that Adobe would have capabilities to "export to pdf" within PM, but not provide a ps printer or a distiller with the package.)
After getting ID, I had another way of producing a pdf, so never looked into installing a ps printer driver.
It took a while, but I have deleted XP SP3, reinstalled the security files that were recommended. (It is funny that the uninstall program warned me that ID, Acrobat and a slough of other program may not work well once I had removed SP3.) So far no crashes and ID is again working!
Thanks so much for your help. Surprised I couldn't find more about this incompatability problem on the web or at Adobe.
Larry

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