I have noticed something that I can only describe as "Ghost Track Changes."
Many times, when I open a document my group created in Word 2000, Word
automatically begins tracking the changes in 2003 even when Track Changes is
NOT turned on. Read carefully, I didn't say "displays changes", I said
"tracks changes".

Here's a scenario:

I open a file and see no changes highlighted even though I have "Final
showing markup" selected. I check to see (out of habit now) if Track Changes
is turned on in the document, and it isn't. I start typing, and lo and
behold, colored change bars, text, and balloons start appearing.

I am well familiar with Track Changes, how to turn it on and off, how to
accept chages, hidden text, and all things like that. What I am not familiar
with is the mysterious ability of Word to Track Changes even after all
changes have been accepted and Track Changes has been turned off multiple
times.

Is there a solution for this?