Word - (Office 2004 )freezing

Office 2004 (fully patched) on Leopard 10.5.5 (fully patched)
In Word clicking File - Open causes the BBOD and freezes Word. Eventually a window opens but it's the Finder window with empty columns that go off each side to infinity (you can drag the window left or right and all it's just empty column after column). The same thing happens if I go to Word Preferences and click Documents/File Locations - Modify. I went to the Library and ditched the Word pref file but that didn't solve the issue. If I open a document any other way it works fine but somehow the location (or lack thereof?) is causing Word to crash.
Thoughts?
Thanks, Jim

Hi jetb2;
Since your question is about Microsoft Word, you will probably have better luck going to their forum instead of here.
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