Word freezing?

hello, I bought an intel iMac 20" not too long ago & installed MS office on it. The Programs seem to run fine, but when I quit out of word the the menu bar will appear blank where it was, I can still tab over to the Word application & it also says it's open in the dock. So it really just closes all the Word menus & whatever documents I have open & then hangs...I have to force quit to get it to fully close. Is anyone else having this problem while running word through rosetta? & is there any way to fix it?

I have the same problem. It doesn't happen all the time, but often Word won't fully quit -- it freezes, and I have to "Force Quit" Word via the Apple menu. It's not a big deal, but it is somewhat annoying. I have the same problem with Adobe Photoshop CS2: it doesn't always fully quit, it freezes, and must be forced to quit. These are the only two apps that I have this problem with, and the only PowerPC apps on my iMac, so I assume it's an issue with Rosetta or apps running under Rosetta. Like I said, it's not a big deal, but it is annoying.
iMac 20-inch 2GHz Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.6) 2GB RAM / 256MB VRAM

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1) deleting plist and font cache files
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3) confirming that Apple's Font Card.app can verify all fonts
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In regarding of the issue, it may be caused some reason, let's try to narrow down the root cause with the following methods:
1.Try disable all the add-ins to see if this behavior could be caused by the 3rd-party add-ins, if this behavior won't occur with all the add-ins disabled, we can enable them one by one to find out which one might cause the issue.
2.Try repair your Office as a quick fix
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
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