Importing Word 2010 Developer Dropdown fields

I have been trying to import a form designed in MS Word 2010 with tabled containing Word Developer dropdown fields into LiveCycle Designer ES3. My OS is Windows 7.
The process always fails.
The importing Word Document begins with Converting Tables and within a few seconds i receive the message "Adobe LiveCycle Designer Word Import Filter has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Please close the program."
There are several dropdown fields in the Word document a few with 30-40 options to select from. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated as the time required to recreate the fields in LiveCycle would take at least a full day.

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View the field code results (press Alt-F9 if necessary). In the English language version of Word you should see
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