I found the source of my problem and the way to create a digital signature.
It appears that my own memory is becoming volatile:) In case others need to
do this, the personal digital signature is not generated using the
certificate console. There is a program in the MS Office installation that
does this. It is called SELFCERT.EXE and needs to be located using Windows
Explorer to run it.

As it turns out, the expired certificate notification that I had been
getting was not caused by my personal certificate, but by the OCR software
that was installed with my new Canon scanner package. It placed an MS Word
template in Word's startup folder. This template has macros and the
signature was expired on the macros. Wanted to share just in case someone
else runs into this.

Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> I need help with this one. Windows XP Pro. Installed some new
> toys I got at
> Staples - a USB scanner and a DVD burner. All seemed to go well, but I
> decided to clean up old drivers and stuff. After that, MS
> Word gave me a
> message that the digital signatures to my macros were no
> longer valid...

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