System Restore problem

[LittleHorn]

Hello, I'm new here.

Inspiron 1545
Intel Core2 Duo T6500 2.10GHz
4GB RAM
Windows Vista Home premium SP2
64bit

I uninstalled MS Office 2000 using the Add/Remove option and I found that there were still files of the software left on the registry. I ran CCleaner and Norton Registry cleaner but the files are still in the registry.

So, i did the stupid Noob thing, manually deleted a folder named "office" from the REGEDIT. I started to look around a bit and found that there were still MS Office files in the REG. I didn't want to go crazy and delete them all, so i decided to do a do a System Restore so that I could get MS Office back but I got this error message when it rebooted:

"System restore did not complete successfully. An unspecified error occurred during System Restore"

I want to restore MS Office so that I can us a program like REVO to get rid of it.

What can I do?

[Broni]

First of all, using registry cleaners is a bad idea. Here is why: http://miekiemoes.blogspot.com/2008/02/registry-cleaners-and-system-tweaking_13.html
Secondly, you can't restore any program, using system restore. System restore deals with system (Windows) files only.
If you want any program back, you have to reinstall it.

[LittleHorn]

Oh! I was lead to believe that registry cleaners were a good thing. OK. I'm going to install MS 2007, and I wanted to make sure that all the old MS files were deleted first. Is this even necessary? 

[BC_Programmer]

OK. I'm going to install MS 2007, and I wanted to make sure that all the old MS files were deleted first. Is this even necessary? 

No. I have Office 2003 installed at the same time as 2007 and they both work fine.

[LittleHorn]

Ok cool, thanks to both of you for the help.

[Broni]

You're very welcome