Incorrect footer display in Word 2003 (re-post)....

I never did get a valid response to my post I sent before therefore I am
reposting the following:

I have a document with custom properties that are defined as fields in a
footer. For field A, lets say it has a custom document property associated
with it that has a value of 1. I open up the Word document on a machine that
has Word 2000. The value displayed in the footer says 1. So far so good.
I open up the same document in Word 2003, and the custom document property
associated with field A has a value of 1, however, in the footer, it displays
a value of 2. When you Print the document, the field in the footer is
printed with a value of 1.

Why does Word 2003 not correctly display the footer field value when in Word
2000, the footers are correctly displayed?