When Building Blocks Explode in Microsoft Word

Pushing out a Word 2010 SP1 template to approximately 150+ machines. There are several building blocks on the template, two of which are causing me problems. The major difference seen is that these problematic building block options contain nested content
controls.
When I click the option in the building block with nested content controls, the building block control stretches to 19 pages. The option should only be the length of an ordinary five sentence paragraph.
Fired up a Virtual Machine to see how the template behaved there. It works fine. Tried on a laptop... no problem. This led me to believe that since I had a dev machine with visual studio and vsto and such, that my machine was just 'special'.
Until... one of my beta users ran into the same problem with there basic non dev laptop.
Have tested on about 10 machines and so far it is just the 2 that are having problems. Have un/re installed which was a no go.
Any ideas as to what causes this? Missing Update, Registry Setting, Word Setting

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Is Word 2010 the program on each computer?
Did any of them have earlier versions of Word on them? When they open Word from scratch, do any of them show "Compatibility Mode" in the title bar?
Charles Kenyon Madison, WI

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