I actually solved my problems this morning. You might want to check out this
URL:
http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forum.a...ors/5213/Hour-glass-keeps-flashing-on-and-off
In my case, I was drawn to the last post describing a printer driver
(Brother HL1440). Although I have the same printer, that didn't turn out to
be the problem. I did have, however, a Margi-Presenter-to-Go driver that
allows me to transfer ppt presentations to my palm pilot. Removing that
driver solved my problem immediately. I had installed that driver last week
with no problem. Not sure what triggered it, but the problem has now gone
away. . at least for the past 2 hours.
Good luck.