Opening Docs in Word Hangs the System

I'm running OSX 10.4.11 (actually, it's OSX Server, but none of the other workstations are affected, so I think we can ignore that for now) on a MacPro 2 x 2.6GHz machine with 4GB of RAM.
Here's the problem. Whenever I open Word (11.3.8) or Excel (11.3.7) and try to open a document (whether by selecting Open from the File menu, clicking on the button in the toolbar, or simply starting the application up from scratch), instead of the lovely Open Dialogue popping up, I get the Spinning Ball of Doom. Then the entire system hangs—I can click on other visible applications and the menu bar changes, but those apps are hung too; I can't access any of the menus, the Dock is inaccessible, and attempting to force quit from the keyboard does nothing. And, of course, because this is the server for our small office network, the entire network comes crashing down.
I've reinstalled Office. I trashed the preference and cache files. I ran Disk Utility and fixed permissions. No go. Help!
Again, I am fairly sure that this has something to do with Office's proprietary Open dialogue box, because I can fire up Word and—if I've done so by double-clicking on a document in the Finder rather then on the application icon—edit and even save. I can open documents in non-MS applications just fine. (And, as I said, I can open and save Office documents on the other computers on the network.) But open a doc in Word or Excel (or, presumably, PowerPoint), and boom—everything comes crashing down.
Anyone have any ideas???

I'm still struggling with this.
I can open documents in non-MS applications. (I'm on the affected workstation now, and have just opened docs in Preview, Apple Pages, and GoLive CS.) I can open the MicroSoft Office Project Launcher, so the problem doesn't seem to be that particular application, but when I try to open a document from Word or Excel, the whole system hangs. Which brings down our entire LAN. Which is a big drag.
For now, we use the other workstations for anything that'll involve an Office application. But we would like to use this one as well!
Again: it's a MacPro 2 x 2.66 Intel with 4GB of RAM running OS X Server 10.4.11.
Help?
Message was edited by: David Kudler

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