Serious Word 2003 Problem

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John K

Here's one for you- I'm completely stumped. I don't know
how to fix it.

I've got a laptop that is running XP, Office 2003 for
students and teachers, Norton Internet Security, and I
recently downloaded a free trial of Inspiration software.
When I ran Inspiration and tried to import to a word file,
an option it claims to be able to do, my problems began.

Whenever I click on a Word document, word boots up and
gets hung up and says "scanning for virus." It doesn't
freeze (the background is blinking). I cannot quit word
once this happens and ultimately end up having to manually
shut down (hit the power button). I can open word, then
open a document. I simply cannot open a word document
directly.

What have I done to solve it?

I originally uninstalled Norton. Then it worked. I tried
to reinstall Norton- it didn't work.

I uninstalled Word 2003. I reinstalled it. It still
didn't work.

I uninstalled Inspiration. It still didn't work.

Finally, I reinstalled Windows. It worked until I
reloaded the updates. Now it doesn't work again.

Help!
-John
 
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