MS Powerpoint 2004 Crashes in Slideshow View

[ThingOneThingTwo]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Intel

Running MS Office 2004:mac with update to 11.5.5 on Mac OSX Tiger 10.4.11 on a 2006 MacBook (Intel Core Duo)

When I click View - Slideshow, Powerpoint goes to a dark screen for about 10 secs and then closes. Happens when creating new presentations and to old presentations. Have noticed that update MS Office 2004 v11.3.2 included a patch to fix this problem, but it doesn't seem to be working.

Have tried Repair Permissions on Disk Utility, have ditched Powerpoint Preferences file and Office file from Library, created new user account and tried from there, nothing seems to fix this. Have just recently re-installed OSX and updates to 10.4.11 and Office 2004 including updates to 11.5.5 on new hard drive.

Any else experienced this problem and found a solution?

 

[Lawrence_V_Hofmann]

I have a similar problem with Powerpoint 2008. I am running it on MacBook Pro with 4GB of memory. This is my problem:
As soon as I connect my computer to a projector while I am in Powerpoint "regular" view, it freezes. If I disconnect the projector it unfreezes. The only way I could get it to work was shut down the computer and reboot with the monitor connected. This is not optimal when doing a presentation to a large group. Please help.