Applications bouncing but not loading

Brian3113

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Hello, I'm new to this, so bear with me... Recently none of my applications barring safari have been able to open. They just bounce in the dock and then nothing happens... I have microsoft office '04 and every time I attempt to open a word document the Word icon just bounces and then quits without ever launching. I tried uninstalling but I can't uninstall Microsoft Office '04 b/c the uninstall application quits before it launches. Not sure what the problem is but it's finals week and I need to be able to access my files, so I went down to my brothers place to grab his MacBook Mac OS X Install DVD. However, when I run it, I get a message that says "mac os x cannot be installed". I was thinking of erasing my HD completely (I've backed up all the files), but I want to know if I were to do this....would the OS X then be able to install? Can you erase your HD and get from 10.4.11 to 10.5.5?

My comp's specs are as follows:
Mac OS X version 10.4.11
@GHz Intel Core Duo
1 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

I've tried all the disk utilities and permissions and disk repair have not helped.
 
Hold down the 'option' key held down when launching Office. This will ask you to rebuild the Microsoft database. By now it should be well known Microsoft LOVES central databases, especially on their own operating systems.
 
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