Can't open RTF or DOC files in AbiWord Windows

I have tried twice to get Abiword for Windows running
on two different PCs, one with Win 98SE and one with
Win ME. When I tried it on Win 98SE, a year ago, I
remember that if I tried to save a file, the program
crashed.

Now I have tried to get it running on Win ME, and I
cannot open any of my pre-existing RTF and DOC files
created in other programs. If I try to open them, I
get an "Untitled" file with nothing in it.

I thought maybe I have to install the import plugins,
so I tried that, and installing the plugins made the
program crash, and give me a blue screen of death,
every time I tried to run it.

I installed the plugins by simply double clicking
them. I don't know if that was the wrong way to do it.
They weren't in the Abiword folder when I double
clicked them. Might that be the problem?

Surely there must be a simple answer to this. I don't
understand why I can't find these problems when I
search on Google. Can it only be happening to me?

I'm using an old Pentium II laptop, 366 MHz, 196 MB
Ram, Win ME. I'm using the very latest version of
AbiWord for Windows which I downloaded a few days ago.
Don't recall the version number. Okay, I guess it must
be 2.6.2., as that seems to be the latest version.

But the problems I had with Win 98 happened over a
year ago, so I guess this is not a new problem.

Thanks if you can solve this for me.

Martin

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Received on Mon Apr 7 17:54:45 2008