[Macpartners] office: mac 2004 - annoying 'feature' help

[Aran M. Parillo]

Hi,

Some time ago, my bosses office X install was crashy, so I purchased 
her a straight 2004 installer (not an upgrade) which she did not get 
around to installing right away.

I decided to put it on my own machine and remove it when she was 
ready to have it installed on hers.  That day came, and I installed 
it onto her machine, removed my install, and bought an 'upgrade' for 
myself and upgraded my office X to 2004.

Now regardless of the fact that we are both using licensed versions 
of the software, I get a pop up dialog alerting me that office must 
close since it's in use on another machine.

I tried to do a complete removal of office items from my machine and 
re-installed office x, then upgraded to 2004 and am having the same 
problem.

Can anyone offer solutions for either blocking the ports microsoft is 
using to check for installs or kill off the daemon which runs to 
check or whack the original preference which seems to want to cling 
onto the original full install I did?  I can't continue shutting down 
my net access every time I need to run office.

-amp

ps: I spared you my MS rant about installing daemons onto unwitting 
users machines as well as giving themselves free access to my network 
services.