I'm trying to direct my mail merge to use my existing excel database as my
list for a letter.

I've done this a billion times in the past but for some reason this time I
get so far as "select Table" and there is nothing to select.

But there's nothing wrong with my excel list?

I'm using word 2003 and excel 2003.

Then I tried doing it another way and I got an error message stating a
database engine failure.