Error 10660 -- Word documents won't open

Not sure where to put this. I bought a new MacBook about a month ago and transferred the entire contents of my old iBook to it. Today I can't open any Word documents. I get a message that "the operation could not be completed. An unexpected error occurred (error no. 10660)." I have rebooted twice, but it doesn't help. One of these documents was created yesterday, so this is apparently a very recent problem.
MacBook   Mac OS X (10.4.7)   512 MB DDR2 SDRAM

Select one Word document in the Finder, choose Get Info from the File menu. Under Open With, choose the desired application from the list, click on the Change All button, and confirm this action. That error message appears when the default application for a specific type of document is in the Trash or isn't available to the computer.
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