The Microsoft framework error goes away when you trash a bunch of
Microsoft prefs, I think specifically the ~/Documents/Microsoft User
Data. If you are trashing any other prefs, to get rid of assorted other
Word errors popping up with Tiger clients  (as we are via a login
script, because there are also weird font issues and freezing), all user
prefs then have to be rewritten somehow. I suppose after that you could
script the pushing out of a good/know plist to all users.

Another fix was posted and this is what they said:

From: client-management-bounces+hpostman=capousd.org@list...
[mailto:client-management-bounces+hpostman=capousd.org@list...]
On Behalf Of David Riddle
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 9:26 AM
To: Client Management LIST
Subject: Re: Microsoft Office - too many files open

It appears that Apple's own 'Developer Info' on this takes a completely
different tack..

Question: I keep getting an error message, particularly in Word, which
says that I have too many windows/files open - but I only have one!

Answer: Taken from http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1005.html

By default, Mac OS X imposes a limit of 256 simultaneously open files
per-process. The actual number of files your application may open
simultaneously will be slightly smaller than this amount: the actual
number of files your application can open simultaneously will be reduced
by the number of files opened by the services used by your application.

In the case of MS Word each time you hit Apple-S to save a new
(hidden) window is opened and kept open! So it's very easy to hit the
limit of 256 open files.

You have to add this line to your .bashrc (startup script) located in
your root directory.

ulimit -S -n 2048

A similar problem occurs with kern.maxprocperuid and kern.maxproc.
The easiest solution to this is to add the following to the bottom of
/etc/rc.common

if [ "${TWEAKS:=-NO-}" = "-YES-" ]; then ConsoleMessage? "Tweaking
stack, data, and processes"
sysctl -w kern.maxproc=1024
sysctl -w kern.maxprocperuid=256
ulimit -H -u512
ulimit -u256 -s8192 -d12288
fi

More technical information can be found at:
http://www.amug.org/~glguerin/howto/More-open-files.html
http://www.latext.com/pm/comments/P562_0_1_0/



I have been running into this problem for a couple months at the High
School I administer. I have tried deleting prefs and config files and
even wacking whole home directeries to see if it helps and the only
thing that seems to be reliable is having the users go into word and in
preferences/ under file locations point the documents to their own
documents folder.  Some posts Ive read also points out that the auto
save feature should be turned off.

I hope this helps

Kevin
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