Go Microsoft products: no Office application will start on my Windows machine anymore .... they start up, then freeze to the point I have to kill their process in the task manager. I'm downloading the "2000 SR-1 Core Update" now, hoping that'll fix it. (gotta love Windows debugging.....) Update: The update wouldn't install. So I rebooted. That fixed it. Even more pathetic. Sorry 2000, Linux wins for uptime....