PowerPoint 2008 question

I realize this may not fit the topic subhead here, but I can't find any better place to ask it.
I have a very strange problem with the new PowerPoint 2008. The PPT slide show feature disappeared yesterday morning when I was trying to review a lecture I have to give in a few days. PPT 2008 directs me to Presenter Tools instead. Presenter Tools also takes me to Presenter Tools.
I have deleted Office 2008 and preferences from my hard drive and reinstalled, but that did not help.
I never saw this with Office 2004. Has anyone ever seen this before? Can it be fixed?
I posted this on the MS forum about PowerPoint and no one answered. I also posted this question on a non-commercial user forum for Microsoft products and the admins censored and deleted it.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

I found the best solution to this problem. There are actually two options:
1) delete PowerPoint 2008 from your hard drive and use NeoOffice instead. It is beautiful, performs smoothly and is basically free
2) delete PowerPoint 2008 from your hard drive and use Keynote instead. It has rough edges and does not handle the old PowerPoint formatting as well, not does it transition all slides, but at least you can use the Slide Show Feature again.
It appears to me that Office 2008 was a "not ready for market" technology. I have often found NeoOffice to be a good stand-in when faced with old Office 2007 -> 2004 problems. Now I see no reason to have Office 2008 at all. NeoOffice does everything.

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