-Office 2003 Student & Teacher Edition
-Windows XP SP2
-Dell Inspiron 4150

I am in the process of merging an excel spreadsheet into a telephone
directory document in Word. The spreadsheet is only 21 columns by 267 rows.
Word hangs every time at various points of the mailmerge. The most common
way it hangs is as I am going through the various records in the spreadsheet
from either the toolbar or the wizard. But it also hangs at other times such
as by changing the data source.

I do not get any error message. Just the hourglass forever. Only way to
get out of it is by ending the WINWORD process from the task manager or from
the non-responding app dialog. When the crash/hang occurs CPU utilization
jumps to 90-97%.

I'v tried repairing the Office install to no avail.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.