Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 crashes

I have recently upgraded (probably the wrong term) to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. Since then I have been running into stability problems. Excel just closes intermittently and my work is lost unless I have just saved. I use Excel a lot because Numbers doesn't have certain abilities I need. I did not have a problem with Excel in the previous version even on Leopard.
Now when I work with print layout and prefilling cells, the system is exceptionally vulnerable.
I've checked to make sure I have the most current versions of everything.
Is anyone else having this problem? Does anybody have any solutions for me?
Right now I have two files I can not print because each time I go to print excel crashes. I just tried 6 times before writing this post.
Help, please.

Mac 2008 has many great features that I wish I could use. But when I try to use them, the entire suite crashes. Microsoft Word crashes if I cut and paste between different versions of the same document. You cannot cut and paste between 97-2003 and 2008 documents without a crash at some point. Trying to make brochures or any special projects are next to impossible. Cutting and paste within the document lends to a crash. Today I was reorganizing the layout on our company newsletter..3 crashes in 5 minutes just from moving objects. 2008 is the least stable product from Microsoft to date. I see updates for my 2004, but they are very slow issuing updates to 2008. My recommendation: don't buy 2008 until 2009.
I have 4 gigabytes of RAM and a nearly empty hard drive. Even after I close out all my programs and run Mac 2008 I get insufficient memory comments. I can edit a DVD and run a number of programs simultaneously without seeing much of a slow down. But Office doesn't just slow down, it crashes.
So anyone considering an upgrade..wait till guinea pigs like me have identified all the bugs. I use the office suite for 4-6 hours a day for work. And I do get around to using the majority of its more common features. But if 2008 does not improve soon, I am going back to my XP version that I am running on VMWare.

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