so, here I am minding my own business and I fire up my trusty excel 2001
teachers & students version and I get one of those C++ runtime error
messages. Keeps wanting to start in safe mode, but that does nothing to fix
the problem. Then it wants to repair, but that just goes to the office
installer and tells me Word is successfully configured . . . duh, that's not
the problem.

And no, I don't use Norton, I hate those guys. Nothing has been changed on
this machine in months. Excel worked fine when I used it just the other
night.

So, what do I need to do? Do an uninstall re-install? That's not going to
be pleasant.