I've been planning to sign up for Empower after I get my web site set
up (one of it's requirements). But, I didn't see anything in there
about Office 2000 - just Office XP (Premium or Developer) or Office
2003. Does the Developer Edition include the object libraries for
older versions?

One other thing that was pointed out to me elsewhere was to use late
binding and beta test on 2000. Has anyone had luck with that?