Illustrator won't start after MS Word Update

I believe MS Word is the culprit here but I'm not absolutely for sure. I know I updated Word (Office 2004) the other day. Today I tried to open Illustrator CS2 and it freezes. I trashed my Illustrator application folder and reinstalled but it still doesn't work. Was thinking about uninstalling MS Word but is it enough to just trash the entire Office Application folder or do I need to remove something else as well? Or maybe I'm completely wrong on this.
I also checked and repaired permissions and verified the disc but it was fine.

Wade_Zimmerman wrote:
Well you have a conflict and if you tell us about plug ins free fonts you installed and other software you have installed we might be able to help but as describe the way you are going about this I have a feeling you are either doing more then you should be or are not doing everything in order, at least it seems that way to me.
What I think that would be the better way to go about this is for you to do an archival reinstall of the system, good thing to do once in a while any way.
BTW removing the fonts won't clear the font cache so if you remove the fonts you clean the font cache out then trash the Settings folder and .plist of course without Illustrator running and for safety sake restart the computer then try to launch Illustrator of course you have to uninstall Suitcase you cannot run Suitcase with Illustrator and you cannot have it installed.
Disabling it means nothing.
Those are your options.
Let me ask you something and do not get offended r you a control person?
If so let someone else handle this for you.
You will be happier.
Do you still have suitcase installed? It has to be uninstalled
Hi Wade,
Not sure what you mean by control person but it is my personal computer at home. I only ever use Suitcase to handle my font's, I never add them to the System Fonts or through Fontbook. That said, I removed Suitcase yesterday and I think I got rid of all it's various attachments like prefs, plsts or whatever. At least I hope so. I also removed Office 2004 and Illustrator has been removed with all its attachments, twice. I've also used a program called FontNuke to clear the Font cache.
I thought about reformatting the HD but wanted to see if I could find a solution before putting up the white flag. I agree, formatting is good once in a while.

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