Leopard x Word x Preview

I bought and installed Leopard today. After installation, I tried to continue working on Word documents I been working on before the installation.
When I use Word's 'Print Preview' function in the File menu, I am 'rewarded' with a blank page.
When I select to Print the file, and then choose the Preview option in the Print dialogue box, I am told that "The margins of section 1 are set outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue?" Options = 'No' and 'Yes'. When I select 'Yes' I again see only a blank page. (The Word document I am working on is a simple, one-page letter, with no sections etc. and as a pre-Leopard-installation document, its margins were fine and it worked perfectly.)
I have also tried to save the Word file as a PDF file. It too is simply a collection of blank pages when I open it.
When I select 'Yes' the page goes to the printer but comes out blank. On a second 'Print' attempt, I received the message: " The application Word quit unexpectedly. Mac OS X and other applications are not affected. Click relaunch to launch the application again. Click Report to see more details or send a report to Apple".
When I send the Word document to myself as an e-mail attachment, I receive the Word document well enough but, in Print Preview mode and other modes as explained above, it is blank and either does does not print, or it crashes Word.
Safari security: When I log on to my website and try to 'Sign in', nothing happens; or rather, I do not get the chance to enter my username and password, and I am returned to my starting Window, without being being signed in... This problem does not occur when I use FireFox: with FF I can sign in as usual. The problem for me is confined to the (Leopard x Safari) interaction.
Also, the hard disk I have plugged into my AirPort Extreme Base station has 'disappeared'....
I need my Mac back, so help would be appreciated...

First, I can tell you that I have no problem with opening word documents and previewing or printing them.
Second, the AE Disk Icon on the desktop and the Airport Extreme Disk utility are gone on my MacBookPro too. However, if you open up the Finder - you should see on the left hand side (Sidebar?) a list of Shared devices - one of those devices should be your shared AE disk.
Hope that helps.

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new test account with no login items
repair permissions
maintenance tasks
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I have found the cause of this issue, but may need help finding a way to make a surefire fix for it that only affects MS Office (Any MS Office developers out there?)
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Hi! I tried searching, but could not find anything pertaining to this issue:
I just switched from Windows four months ago, thus I'm sorry if this sounds stupid. Can the Dictionary application be launched to look up definitions of words while viewing PDFs in the Preview application, just as with TextEdit and Safari? I think, but cannot be sure, that I used to be able to do so.
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You can select/highlight any word ("tool mode >> text
tool") but the option to lookup in dicitionary is not
available.
Yes. (...is Preview a Cocoa application?)
Thank you, Macjack. You've been a great help.
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pictures
http://jasonhalac.com/test/iphoto1.png
http://jasonhalac.com/test/iphoto2.png
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Hi,
i tried the same as told above:
I repaired permissions
I deleted my plist file
I created a new account
nothing of them fixed my problem.
Here's a picture:
http://public.baiindhe-dub.de/files/fotos/test.tif
MfG Flo
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1. Open Disk Utility and select the drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list.
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