foxpro & word 97/2000

I have a product written in foxpro 2.6. I export tables (*.dbf) to enable a mail merge in word. I now have sites that get a problem of “unable to open data source”. I have download mdac 2.5 from msn, have setup the odbc drivers to go to a “free table directory” and pointed the path to the correct directory & drive. I still get the problem. I have also de-installed and reinstall office97 and reload the mdac.