Office 2000 Autosave had a bug which was corrected in a Service Release.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;231117
XL2000: AutoSave Settings Are Not Retained Between
Sessions of Excel 2000


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 26 May 2009 13:01:24 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Terminal Server 2003 and Excel 2000.
AutoSave feature available and works during session.
Roaming profiles setup and working properly.
Log out of Terminal Server and AutoSave settings not saved. Have to
reset session.
Any fixes?