Okay, every time I try to save something, anything, Word says that it has encountered a problem and needs to shut down and sorry for the inconvenience. This has only happened today so far. I was writing junk yesterday and it worked fine.

It probably wouldn't be a bad idea to go to http://office.microsoft.com and click on the "Check for updates" link.

Okay, I left the problem alone to see if I was doing something stupid my fiance could catch. Now, I can't close the damn program. I click the X, it says that it encounters a problem. I say, don't send the error message (because I already did it twice), and it brings it back up. And so, the cycle continues.

Is there a debug option... I don't know if that actually helps, but I enjoy pushing a variety of buttons. It gives me the illusion that I am doing something helpful...

Yeah, I tried all the buttons. Worth a shot.

Okay, checked for updates and it says everything is up to date.

reinstall it. If that fails, http://www.openoffice.org

About reinstalling it...

you'll need the original disc and cd key. if its Office 2003 you'll have to activate.