Microsoft Office 2004 broken: dead as a parrot

Quicktime 7.2 update breaks Office 2004 on Intel Powerbook

For solution, see below

If you haven't yet installed QT7.2, my advice is to wait!

Here's what happened to me:

• Office Update 11.3.6 refuses to launch.
• MS Word refuses to launch!
• MS Powerpoint refuses to launch.
• MS Excel refuses to launch.
• decide to remove Office, and reinstall!
• MS Office refuses to install—the installer won't run.
• Remove all traces of Office in preferences etc.!
• MS office installer won't run.
• !

macfixit has some suggestions these didn't work for me.

It seems that the prebinding of the java libraries is at fault!

Steps to Fix:

Remove Java 6

> su Administrator
> cd /Library/Receipts/JavaSE6Release1.pkg/Contents
> lsbom -s -f Archive.bom > /tmp/file-list

Edit /tmp/file-list to replace all " " with "\ " and all "./" with "rm /" (I use emacs for this.)

> sudo bash /tmp/file-list
> rm -r /Library/receipts/JavaSE6Release1.pkg
> sudo update_prebinding

I removed the following

sudo rm -r /Library/Receipts/JavaForMacOSX10.4Release5.pkg

and installed it again. (From http://developer.apple.com/java/download/)