[mso] Reinstall Office 2003 Causes System Freezes

Hello, 
The system on my Dell Laptop was running smoothly for 10 months with Office 
2003 TS Edition preinstalled from the Dell factory, but then I had to do a 
complete XP reinstall due to an issue with my cd-rom drive not being 
recognized. After reinstalling the system, I reinstalled Office 2003 and the 
system began to freeze. I could not even open the task manager. At first I 
thought it was Mcaffee causing problems so I uninstlled it. But the problem 
kept occurring. I reinstalled yet again another fresh XP system and reinstalled 
Office as well. I opened Word and it locked up. I tried uninstalling and 
reinstalling Office four or five times and the system even locked up up on the 
uninstall. Every other program locks up eventually as well with Office 
installed. I have since removed Office altogether and my PC works great again!! 
Luckily, I have Office on my Mac (OS 10.4) and it runs flawlessly. Macs, gotta 
love em!! I would however like to work in Word on my Dell PC, but really don't w
 ant to
 deal with it at this point. If anyone knows of any known issues, I'd love to 
hear about them. So far, I have seen this issue reported twice at other tech 
sites. Each instance, including mine, has happened within the past month - odd. 

PS. I know there are troubleshooting steps on the main website for this list, 
but before I started trying each one, I thought I'd bounce this off anyone to 
see if he/she could help me narrow down to a certain specific issue.

Thanks,
John

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