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I just upgraded my MacBook Pro to a MacBook Air and migrated everything across using Migration Assistant via WiFi.
Seems to have gone fine but found that my wife can't get any Office 2008 apps to start up. Word, Excel, etc start up in my account without a hitch but when we try to start any Office app in wife's account the Setup Assistant pops up, asks if we'd like to participate in feedback, then asks to choose to register or learn more. No matter what we choose the Microsoft Updater pops up and prompts to check for updates after this the app closes. We are forever in this loop of trying to open an Office app, checking for updates and then the app closing down. And the app closes even if I quit Setup Assistant and/or Microsoft Updater.
I've tried dumping various plists but not luck.
Any help in resolving this would be much appreciated.

Another copy of this question turned up a couple of weeks later and has been answered. Basically, you have to reinstall Office 2008 from the original media.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3645235?start=0&tstart=0

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