Virtualization version and have you read my article on SWV and office?  If no look it up and look at the short file name issue and see if that fixes your problem.

Is this the article you were referring to Jordan?

Virtualizing Microsoft Office: a Handy Collection of Tips

Hope it helps!
Cheryl

Yep that be it

Hello, I'm having the same trouble with thesaurus freezing in Word too, and unfortunately the short file name fix did not resolve the issue (I installed Office to the folder "Office 2003" instead of "Microsoft Office"). Any other ideas?

Here's are some registry keys that seem to solve the problem:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Research\Options.

Entry name Value type Value data Required? Default value
NoAdd DWORD Boolean used to disable the Add Services button. This
setting prevents the addition of any service except the internal services.
It also disables the discovery mechanism. Possible values include:
a.. True (1). The Add button and discovery are disabled.
b.. False (0). The Add button and discovery are enabled.
No False is assumed if absent.
NoDiscovery DWORD Boolean used to disable the discovery mechanism.
Possible values include:
a.. True (1). The Research task pane never queries discovery
servers.
b.. False (0). The Research task pane can query the discovery
servers.
No False is assumed if absent.
DiscoveryNeedOptIn DWORD Boolean used to ask the user to opt in to the
discovery mechanism. This setting is irrelevant if NoDiscovery is set to 1.
The HKEY_CURRENT_USER version of this value overrides the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
value. Possible values include:
a.. True (1). Ask the user to opt in to the discovery mechanism.
b.. False (0). Enable the discovery mechanism without asking the
user.