Repeated Office for Mac 2011 activation required...(?)

New MacBook Pro with Office for Mac 2011 installed from my MSDN account.  Everything with latest updates.  Activation of the Office suite works fine. 
However, I'm forced to re-activate Office after every restart of the machine.  Activation should be required only once.  Anyone have any suggestions re how to get the activation state to be retained? (...and why it wouldn't be retained?) Thanks.

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