[ravetcofx]

Try opening them in Libreoffice, it's often able to open crusy old documents.

[al_borland]

I think I tried that. I'm not sure if I still have them, I'll have to go look, but I tried every app I could think of. I spent a few hours on it last time I looked. There was a paragraph here or there that would show up, with a bunch of garbage around it for the rest of the file.