Entourage 11.2.5 and Word attachments

Since upgrading to Entourage 11.2.5, I have encountered problems
directly opening Word attachments into Word, especially if Word is
closed. I get the following dialog - "The application Word quit
unexpectedly. If I look at the report, I get -
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0xffdff3bc

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 LaunchCFMApp 0xb807b139 0xb8000000 + 504121
1 LaunchCFMApp 0xb808f47a 0xb8000000 + 586874
2 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80e482c spin_lock_wrapper + 4852

When I next reopen Word, I get a message - Word encountered file
corruption while opening PDFMaker.dot.

If Word is already open, there is no problem. Suggestions?