Damaged or corrupted office files

Hello,
Over the past few weeks I have noticed that many of my older office files that I created within the past year or so do not open.
Upon trying to open them, I get a 'convert file' dialog box and regardless of which option I select (i.e. convert from word, RTF, MS-DOS, etc), the dialog fails and the document will not open. Opening with Open Office doesn't work either. The dialog for excel files is slightly different, but same result.
All of the files were created on my existing mac under Snow Leop. or its predecessor. They have not been edited anywhere outside of my current fully updated version of word 2008, and have not been moved around from other disks, etc. The problem occurs with both the new xml formats and the old .doc/.xls files. I haven't noticed this problem on anything other than MS office files.
In some directories, fully 80% of my files have this problem. I am very worried since I have many many office documents, and while time machine has backups for most the problem also appears on some of my backups.
I've done a full disk verification/repair and same for permissions (from the boot DVD)
Does anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this, it is a worrying development and I can't think of what else to do! Am about to entirely uninstall office and hope that a reinstallation might fix it, though I'm not very optimistic about my chances there.
Thanks

A further plea for help on this issue!
I have done all as suggested, and it did not resolve this issue. I have also found that this problem is not restricted to MS Office files, but that PDFs and some txt files also are damaged.
The damaged files were edited or created prior to late July. I have forwarded several of the corrupt files to other macs and PCs and they won't open there either. So, it seems that something has corrupted a large proportion of my files and I have no idea what has caused it, or how to resolve it.
Does anyone have any other ideas.
Thanks.

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