Office Word 2008 crashes when trying to open a local stored document ONLY if network connection is down

Sorry to bother you all but I have a situation I can't find a solution for:
on a MBP 2009, running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and MS Office 2008 (up to date), if I open a local stored document AND the unit is connected to the network everything works fine.
As soon as I switch off the network connection and I open a local stored document Word freezes and within "Force quit..." I can see that Word is no longer responding. A few minutes later OS X quits Word and that's it.
I already checked Safe boot, removing the Microsoft plist's and reinstalling MS Office 2008 including all available updates but the situation is still the same.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Robert

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