Reuse old selfcerts (self certificates)?
 

Sorry if this message is duped. The Google group interface is clunky.

I asked this a while back without success (but thank you for trying
Gord) - but it's so so so valuable that I'm trying again in case new
eyes catch this. I actually am not on a new machine, but reinstalled
Win XP and Office 2003 which I run in Medium Security. But first I
backed up the certificate directory to C:\Documents and
Settings\MyNameHere\Application Data\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\My
\Certificates

Can these backups possibly be reused? Or can I create a new
certificate that still satisifies workbooks that referenced the old
cert? By the second question I mean, I have a ton of workbooks that
reference MyRundgrenSelfCert. That allowed my [preupgrade] machine to
"trust" the macros and skip the warning prompt if I had "stamped" them
with MyRundgrenSelfCert. Now those workbooks still look for
MyRundgrenSelfCert in order to skip the warning. Can I give them what
they want, without having to edit and resave the workbook files?
Because even though I restored the pre-upgrade's C:\Documents and
Settings\MyNameHere\Application Data\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\My
\Certificates, I get the warning when I open files that reference
MyRundgrenSelfCert.

Can I possibly get rid of the warning, without having to reassign the
workbooks' and resave them? I really really really hate to have to
update the file dates merely for this purpose.