When I open Word, it generally opens behind whatever other apps I have open.
I am running XP Pro with SP2 installed.

Additionally, today, I had several documents open and I went to "Save As"
the top document. It opened the dialogue box and when I attempted to change
the path, it replaced the document displaying behind the dialogue box with
the first opened document. It also then returned the dialogue response back
with the document I was trying to save at the back.