Issue with Office 2008 - won't start

I've just installed Office 2008 and done updating it to 12.1.2. I'm using a MacBook with Leopard 10.5.4 running.
But everytime I open anyone of the Office 2008 applications, the Get Started app pops up and Autoupdate follows. After Autoupdate finishes checking (no updates found), it just stays there.
The Application I selected be it Word, Exel or Powerpoint, won't open. What's wrong?

Since Office is not an Apple product, you should consider posting your question on Microsoft's own forums for their Mac products, as they would be more focused on the issue than an Apple forum that deals with installation issues of OS X:
http://www.officeformac.com/productforums

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