Timberline Office / Sage 300 / Version 9.7

In advance of closing 1099 year, backed up data which indentified corrupted files. Ran file doctor and saved to file.  Tried to view file and received the following error message:  Unable to load the company infomation from the system database due to the following error:  An error occured while retrieving the data for entity PasswordPolicy and operationSet GetPasswordPolicy in Entity Service:: GetEntityData.  

Sage no longer supports this version.  I've contacted the company indicated by Sage many times today, but still no response.

Anyone encountered this error before?  How to fix?