Crazy Thing Happened While Editting Main Merge Document - Can't view data, jus Mergefield

Something terrible has happened while working with my mail-merge main documents. As I was working, I must have zigged or zagged or something because I really don't know what I did to screw things up.

I closed out, and didn't save anything, thinking I'd start fresh. I went to my directory and opened one of my report .dot's. Oh no .... it opened in the same state that I closed the corrupted document. The symptoms: 1) Despite having "View Merged Data selected on the toolbar" all my fields displayed the MERGEFIELD info. 2) I had a weird footer (one not part of my original document) with an external link to a school logo). For me to continue to work with my document, I had to toggle every merge field to get any data to be displayed. I resaved the document after I had made the repairs. It turned out that all my .dot documents suffered the same demise even though I hadn't been working on them. I repaired each one and saved them accordingly.

But still, when I open them the same things happen ... the merged fields displayed rather than the data, and the odd footer. I made some changes again, and saved as a .doc. When I reopen, although the crazy footer is gone, I still have to toggle all the merge fields to view any data.

Please help!!

Its almost like it's using a different template.

I took it home to my home computer, and all seemed OK. I would load up a report.dot from my directory and everything was fine.
I started editing, than BAM. I'm stuck with this crappy whatever it is problem. I can't open any of my .dot reports without getting this annoyance. It does not affect the final destination document. Just the main merge document.

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Duh. Thanks Paul. LOL.
I'm curious though about that extra table that mysteriously appeared with the INSERTIMAGE field in it. Although it doesn't impact the finished product (hence it doesn't worry me), I have no idea how it got there.