Hey, Brian. Have you ever run msconfig on your PC to see what's running in the background? Office 97 has a little program called FindFast that should definitely not be running as its known to cause problems.
You say you reinstalled Office a couple of times. When you did that, did you use Eraser? In order for the registry to be properly cleared of Office, you need to use it (both Office 97 and 2000 have it). It should either be on your CD or you can download it from:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q254250
Please take all of the precautions mentioned.
Also, my husband has XP and changes he's made in settings that *should* change the registry were gone after a reboot. Sounds suspiciously similar and I wonder if it doesn't have to do with all this *user* stuff that's integrated with XP. I will ask the OS gurus on Monday about this anomaly. Meanwhile, of course, if you somehow manage to take care of this, I'd love to know.
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