Word printing slow when called from Access

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I'm calling Word 2003 from Access 2000, late bound. Here is a routine
that till very recently printed light duty word docs pretty fast
(shorthand)

Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
' Open a doc so the selections can print, need a loaded doc...
objWord.Documents.Add strSomeDoc
objWord.PrintOut Background:=False, FileName:="c:\mydoc.doc"

For some reason it jams up word for about a minute before anything
starts to print. I can't think of anything that's changed recently on
this pc, other than I've applied winxp sp2. Not sure how to approach
this...in task manager, word never goes over 2% of cpu.