MS Office woes

Hi all,
I have lost Excel and Word.
When I try to open Word, I get
"the application Word quite unexpectedly" Ignore/Report/Relaunch
and similarly with Excel (and the rest of Office; but it's only Word and Excel I really need.)
I don't know what I did to screw these up; both have been reliable for a long time.
It's not specific to MS Office: I downloaded "BC Spreadsheet" as an alternative to Excel; it worked OK for a while and then started crashing the same way.
I have restarted, trashed MSoft prefs, trashed MS folder, cleaned/maintained (Onyx), and even virus-checked (ClamXav). I have tried to re-install from CD... new versions of the apps behave the same as old.
I have pulled out most of my remaining hair.
Can't afford to lose much more.
Suggestions?
Thanks!
Ch.S.
PS- iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, OS X (10.5.8)

Try NeoOffice from http://neooffice.org/
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