Microsoft Office 2004 still hanging after Rosetta and Combo Update

I have been running MO 2004 on my intel Mac for the past 6 mo without any issues. Recently it has begun to hang one program at at time. Beginning with PPT, then Excel, Word, and now Entourage. I did some searching and saw an article on Rosetta. I installed it from the DVD and installed the combo update 10.6.8. On restart everything worked perfectly. Each program all started up. I closed them back out and went to restart them again...just to be sure. They all are hanging again. What is happening, what can I do? Many thanks, JD

I also had this problem with Office 2004
I repaired permissions
Deduplicated fonts
Updated to Office 11.6.6
Seemed to help Word/Excel but Powerpoint still hanging
baltwo - thankyou I followed your advice and ppt opened fine under the new administrator account.
What now? Do I migrate all my stuff to the new account? If so how do I do that?
Incidentally my Adobe CS2 programs had started to hang too. Reinstalling from disc did not help. Then I found free CS2 downloads including serial numbers from Adobe and that fixed them.
iMac Intel 2010, 4GB RAM, OS X 10.6.8

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