Mac Office 2008 on Snow Leopard - files not recognized on PC

I have a problem sending files to friends in Microsoft Word. They cannot open them because an error message "Unable to scan attachment. The attached file has not been scanned because it may be password protected or corrupted." keeps coming up. Just updated to Snow Leopard and started noticing this problem after the update in OS. When trying to get the latest updates from Microsoft, they say that the latest updates have been loaded.
Is this a problem that has been noticed by others? Is there something that I am doing wrong? Is this just another case of Microsoft making things difficult?

Brian
I am using MS 2008 and SL with out any problems, but you might want to be sure the person your sending to can use the .docx extension. If they have an older version of Office they may not be able to read the new .docx. Try doing a save as and using the filp down format Word 97-2004 (.doc) then see if your party can open the file.
Mike

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