Office and Appleworks quit at start-up

My daughter's MacBook (10.5.4) quits both Appleworks and MicroSoft Office for Mac almost immediately upon start-up. Both programs start and the opening screen appears but then she gets the pop-up that says the program has unexpectedly quit with the ignore, report, relaunch choices. I have tried repairing permission, reinstalling, and creating a new user account but the problem persists. The fact that it is both programs leads me to think the problem is OS related, but I have no idea what. Any ideas?
Dave

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2.
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