Error message when you try to open a form or try to preview a form in InfoPath 2003 with Service Pack 1: "InfoPath cannot create a new, blank form" (920596)

SYMPTOMS

When you try to open a form or try to preview a form in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 with Service Pack 1, you receive an error message that resembles the following:

InfoPath cannot create a new, blank form.
InfoPath cannot open the form. To fix this problem, contact your system administrator.

You receive this error message even though the form is a new, blank form. When you click Show Details, you receive the following error message:

Form template: <filepath>
InfoPath cannot open the selected form. There was an error while loading the XML schema for the form.
Access is denied.

Note In this error message, <filepath> is a placeholder for the location of the form that you want to open or to preview.

CAUSE

This problem occurs if one or more of the following conditions are true:

The versions of the following files are old and are incompatible with InfoPath 2003 Service Pack 1:
- The Hlink.dll file
- The Urlmon.dll file
- The Oleaut32.dll file
A third-party application installs duplicate copies of the Hlink.dll file or of the Urlmon.dll file.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, follow these steps:

Click Start, click Run, type Regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\System32\hlink.dll, and then click OK.
Click Start, click Run, type Regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\System32\urlmon.dll, and then click OK.
Click Start, click Run, type Regsvr32 %SystemRoot%\System32\oleaut32.dll, and then click OK.