IMac freezing when I run powerpoint presentation

I have an iMac 2.16 GHz Inter Core 2 Duo Processor with 2 GB 667 MHz Memory. Lately when I open a powerpoint presentation that is sent via e-mail, as soon as it opens up, the computer will freeze up on the first slide.
Has this happened to anyone else? I am not sure what to do about it.
Any suggestions?

I got exactly the same machine, same software and same problem as u!
Im using ethernet so it should not be the wifi problem

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