My firewall won't let me quit Word

I finally got a broadband connection but I've run into a little snag: I can't quit Word and I have to resort to force quitting. On the macoshints forum I learned that this could be caused by my firewall. According to the writer, "the microsoft database daemon checks on the local network to see if other copies of Office are in use w/ the same serial number. It should do this at startup and quit. If you have a firewall then you get a hanging spinning beachball of death." And so I turned off my firewall and lo and behold, the problem was solved. My question is, how do I get around this other than keeping the firewall off every time I use Word (a program I must confess I try to avoid whenever possible)?
I originally posted a similar question in the general Tiger usage forum, but now that I know what's going on, this seemed a better place.
Thanks in advance.

I have my machines configured to block port 3868 which I found to be the one used by MS Office for checking for copies of itself on the local network.
I don't have any problems. Hence I suspect that, with a default firewall configuration that blocks incoming requests but not outgoing ones, you might improve things by making sure port 3868 is blocked for both directions.
Graham
PS. I do have licenses for each of my machines but I don't like to have programs sending messages over my network that I don't know about!

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