Excel 2000 saves only Temp files

[ScottSass]

Dell Latitude D630 laptop with XP Pro SP2 with MS Office 2000 Professional installed. Using Excel 2000 - when I make changes to an Excel doc it saves it as a temp file wherever the original is - sounds normal - but the Temp file stays. If I make another change, another Temp file is created. AND the changes are in the most recent Temp file. They are never removed. Uninstalled Office 2000 and installed Office 2003 and the same thing happens. I turned off the anti-virus, nothing. It stills does the same thing.
Word 2000 works normal. No problem with the Temps staying. Its only an Excel problem.
Any ideas? Thank you.

 

[AnotherHiggins]

Are you saving Word and Excel files to the same folder?

It sounds like you, for some reason, do not have full rights to the folder, preventing temp files from being deleted.

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[ScottSass]

I thought about that and made sure the user account was Admin, the document wasn't Read-Only, had the proper folder rights and also opened Word & Excel docs from different locations (a folder on the desktop, the desktop itself and from My Documents). Excel still doesn't work, Word does.