Help with 2 weird behaviors in Word 2004

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Hello all -

Thanks for all the help with my previous questions. I've got two more:

1. I've just 'upgraded' from Word 5.1a to Word 2004, so all of my
preexisting text files are in Word 5.1a format. When I open up a
preexisting 5.1a text file, make some changes in Word 2004, and try to
'save' or 'close', I get the 'save as' window. When I then try to save
the file as a 'Word Document' (ie, in Word 2004 format) without
changing the name of the file, I get a warning message which reads, "A
document [with the same name] already exists in this location. Do you
want to replace it with the one you are savings?" When I click
'replace', which should be the end of the matter, I instead get
returned to the 'save as' window in an endless loop which can only be
broken by either cancelling the save, changing the name of the
document, or saving the document to a different location. Is this a
bug, and is there any way to defeat it? I have hundreds of Word 5
documents that I need to work on and revise; I don't want to start
changing all of their names or saving them to new locations.

2. When writing emails that I want to save for future reference, I
sometimes compose in Word and then cut and paste the text into my email
program, Apple's Mail. This worked fine with Word 5, but when I do
this with Word 2004, any paragraph returns contained in the original
get doubled. In other words, in Word 2004, I write a paragraph, then
hit 'return' to start a new paragraph. In the Word document, there
will be no blank line between the two paragraphs. But when I paste
into Mail, there will now be a blank line between the paragraphs. If
there is a single space between the paragraphs in Word 2004, there will
be a double space between the paragraphs in Mail. If I put a double
space (hit 'return' twice) between the paragraphs in Word 2004, there
will be 4 blank lines between the paragraphs in Mail. The formatting in
the Word document is correct -- if I choose 'show all' there are no
weird or stray characters, and the proper number of 'paragraph' marks
are shown in the correct place. Any ideas why this is happening and
how I can fix it (and please don't tell me to switch to Entourage!)

Thanks for any help,
Zack

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