Word 2003 crashing some other W2K applications

[drvfr750]

Hi,
So I've just repaired my installation of WIN 2K, and reinstalled Office 2003
and done all of the windows updates that are available. Then run resistry
firstaid to clean things up.
Now when I open windows it keeps asking about a macro problem with
pdfmaker.dot. So I disable the macros. Shouldn't Word be looking for the
normal.dot file instead of this pdfmaker.dot??
So in trying to delete all normal.dot files so that word will create a new
one when it opens I start My Computer. When I attempt to search for the
normal.dot file... or anything at all I get an error: Office Pro comes up
saying it needs to configure Office 2003 and it begins to configure
something. Then I get a Program Error that tells me explorer.exe has
generated errors and will be closed by Windows. And it creates an error log.
My Computer then closes as do all of my applications running in the task bar
in the lower right corner except for McAfee security center.
Why is all of this happening?
Any leads on what to chase down here?
TIA!
Chris

 

[drvfr750]

OK, I've gotten rid of the macro problem. For whatever reason installing
Acrobat Standard put it's own template in there. Once I replaced it with
normal.dot Word opens OK.
But I still have the search problem with Explorer. I don't even have to
enter anyting into the search field and WIN Office 2003 trys to configure
something and then I get the explorer.exe error and it closes.
I know this is not the correct newgroup for that question, so I'll repost it
there incase no one comes up with anything here.

Chris