Out of memory errors shortly after saving Adobe LiveCycle Designer

Stuck in a loop.  I am being forced to give up on a pdf that I put hours of work in.
I can open the document and work in it for a while, but one large text box will instantly crash the program if I select it.
The name of the text box is very long.  This was named as the file was converted automatically with the acrobat professional forms wizard.
If I could delete the field i would but as soon as I select it I am hosed.
The debugger opens asking me if I want to open visual studio.  
I have no choice but to just give up on all the work on this document.
I am using xp and no logs are written to the event view or in the
any files with the word log in it in the adobe folder.
I have adobe livecycle Designer ES 8.2.1.4029
I have similiar crashes with the CS3 version on my other pc.  for instance I have
I have had to uninstall visual studio even to get livecycle to run. Also neither version will convert a word document.
So I print word as a pdf, the open it in acrobat pro and run the forms wizard,  then I can convert that to LiveCycle.
it works.
I have to get this project done,  so I will go back to word and either reduce the textbox size,  and thankfully I can copy the work I do have out of the corrupt pdf. 
My question is,  is there a way I can somehow delete the evil text box that instantly crashes the program.
Wow.

Hi,
Can you attach the file to the forum and I can see if I can delete the text box here?
Niall

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