Microsoft Work 2003 and PowerPoint 2003 Keep on Crashing

I wanted to see if this was something other T61 owners were seeing.  I am running Windows XP Professional, SP3 (although the issue was happening with SP2 also).  Office 2003 installed, with the latest patches (and it happened without the latest patches also).
Very often Powerpoint will upon exit, and so will Word.
More problematically, often Word will crash when I start to type.  Also when I open a document, it won't allow me to type in the document for a few seconds, even if it's a small document.

I recall that problem.  Mine was on a T61, Vista and Word 2007.  It had something to do with the AV software and a check it did when opening Work and/or a new document. I forget the exact details but I did find some insights on here that ultimately let me to correct the issue.

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