Microsoft Office 2007 Help Viewer - does not start

[pfragoso]

I have a brand new Thinkpad X61 with Vista Ultimate and Office Enterprise 2007.

Every application I wanted to use with Vista is working nicely, even ones that are officially not supported. Except, that is, that I finally got to Office 2007...

I opened some of the Office applications and things went well. Then I clicked on the help button on one of them.

Got this, immediately:

After some 4 minutes, this:

Whether I reboot or not, I get this:

If I do not reboot, this goes away in a few seconds and nothing happened (except wasting my time).

If I do reboot, things get a bit more interesting:

And then, when I cancel:

Followed by:

And the glorious conclusion:

One has to love Microsoft...

I already uninstalled Office once, I already did everything with UAC on and off, and I am not going to do any clean reinstall of Vista.

Am I condemned to use Google to get help on Office 2007 on the Internet, or can I get CLVIEW.EXE to work and solve this without a clean install of Vista? I am OK with a clean reinstall of Office, if someone can explain me how to go about that.

Edited July 30, 2007 by pfragoso