There's several shareware programs that convert any dwg (autocad2000 or otherwise) to DXF that can then be opened by R14 or whatever (then saved as R14). Very useful since it does so outside of autocad- no need to have 2000, no need to try to get a 2000 dwg 'saveas' an R14. One's called 'DWG2DXF.zip', there are others, try