Two ways to fix your problem:
1. Reset the data folder to it's default. To do this, find the folder C:\Documents and Settings\XXXX\Application Data\Sports Interactive\OOTP Baseball 2007\data\config and open the file in there called "paths" in a basic text editor like Notepad. The XXXX in that folder name needs to be replaced with whatever your username on your computer is.
The only thing in that file is a pair of lines, one that says "path_user_data" and one that contains, well, the path to the user data.
Change that second line back to C:\Documents and Settings\XXXX\My Documents\Sports Interactive\OOTP Baseball 2007\data - again, change the XXXX to your username.
That's the default location for the user data. Now, since you said you changed that location in the game (what caused your problem in the first place), assuming you want to
keep your changed location, rather than restoring the default, here's what you do instead:
2. Open that paths file in Notepad, just to confirm where the game is looking. Note that even a custom path
must end in a folder called \data - so, for instance, you could specify C:\Game Files\OOTP2007\data as a custom location, but something like C:\Game Files\OOTP2007\mystuff wouldn't work. If the custom data directory that you specified doesn't end in a \data folder, change it so that it does.
Now go and make sure that custom directory that you specified actually exists, and create it if it doesn't. Lastly, you need to cut and paste all the files from the default data directory (again, C:\Documents and Settings\XXXX\My Documents\Sports Interactive\OOTP Baseball 2007\data) into your new, custom one.
Then load OOTP, and it will locate and pick up the files in your custom directory.
Let us know if either of those approaches helps.
- Kai