Thanks for letting me know that my problem can maybe be solved, Jon.
I'll try your linked app...can't hurt, but I'll likely wind up trashing most everything Microsoft and reinstalling...all to avoid having to boot into Leopard to generate PDFs. (I have to boot into Leopard to actually print...no updated driver.)
You got it backwards, though; it was Office 2008 that was slow to launch and brutally slow to quit.
