Mac:word 04/08 random removal of spaces

short: mac:word removes spaces from documents randomly.
long: At first I thought it might be an issue with windows:word 2007 users and mac:word 04/08 users working on the same documents; however, I have had several instances were a mac:word 04/08 document that is created, edited, saved and re-opened on OSX (Leopard 10.5.2) without interaction with Windows; has spaces throughout randomly removed.
This is most annoying. I have found it hard to find other users experiencing this. Googling for the issue or searching in various forums just presents complaints and whines about interoperability with Leopard spaces. This is a much bigger and more frustrating issue, trust me!
Versions:
OSX Leopard 10.5.2
mac:word 2008 v12.0.1 (08305)
mac:word 2004

I have created two documents, one standard no modified styles and one with modified styles. Filled teh documents with the text:
The cow jumps over the moon.
Passing both documents backwards and forwards to OSX and Windows, opening, editing and closing and I can't re-create the issue in either document.
I followed the instructions at http://word.mvps.org/Mac/damagedPrefs.html for recreating the preferences and repeated the above steps, still can't re-create the issue.
Now oddly enough, the words do NOT appear as misspelt (i.e no red squiggly line) in Windows or OSX. If you manually preform a spell check they are picked up.
This can happen if I author a document, save it and re-open locally, so I did manage to rule Windows out of the equation.
If a document is opened on Windows and the spaces have been removed, opening it again on the mac, results in seeing that in fact the spaces have been removed.

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