[mso] MS Word Using Vista

I'm having a problem using Word with my new PC.  The operating system is Vista 
Home Premium.  The PC came with a trial version of Office 2007.  When I open 
Word documents, they show up as "read-only."   This happens even when I change 
the document attributes, giving full read and write privileges to all users.  I 
am the only user of this PC, although Vista shows several user identities 
including administrator, Lenovo, and me.  Who knows why???  I store most of my 
documents on an external drive, but the read-only phenomenon happens when I 
retrieve documents from the "My Documents" folder too.
I uninstalled Office 2007 and loaded up my trusty version of Word 2000, but the 
same problem occurs.  Does anyone know what is causing this and how to fix it?  
If I open a document and make no changes to it, the system will not allow me to 
save the document under another name.  If I make a change and try to save the 
document under the original name, the system will not allow it.  If I use "save 
as" under a new name after I have made a change to the document, the system 
saves the document.  But then when I open this new document, it shows up as 
"read-only."  It's a senseless cycle that fills up my hard drive and it's 
really annoying.  Help!

Mike   
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