I decided to do some more testing. A Word document will eventually open, - after about two minutes 10 seconds.
With a MA2.6 window open on the screen, the document file opens immediately.
Yeah, that's the way it works on my system, too. Thanks for the observation.
WXP Pro SP3 on a fairly healthy system, Office 2007.
It takes 50 seconds for the empty Excel screen to appear, and another full minute for a very small document to appear. Total 1 minute 50 seconds.